A colloquialism is a that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation, rather than in formal speech, academic writing, or paralinguistics.
1. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. 2. involving or using conversation.
Some examples of informal colloquialisms can include words (such as "y'all" or "gonna" or "wanna"), phrases (such as "old as the hills" and "graveyard dead"), or sometimes even an entire aphorism ("There's more than one way to skin a cat").
Colloquialisms my grandparents said:
"I wouldn't wear that to a dog fight if I knew both dogs."
"She came right off the spool"
"Drier than the heart of a haystack"
"Fat and sassy"
"Nervous as a whore in church"
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