(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
‘colloquial and everyday language’
‘colloquial phrases’
‘I had four or five Chinese dialects at my disposal, phrases in colloquial English, and of course, Malay.’
‘The language is often colloquial and vigorous.’
‘In some places the use of more colloquial language seems to work and not detract from the original gospels, but in other places it came across to me as contrived.’
‘He uses refined colloquial language with a rhythm that is light and quick, an unhesitating flow that propels the poem and carries the reader.’
‘In all these collections, Neruda turns to a simple style and colloquial language to talk about objects of everyday life.’
‘Ira had a great ear for colloquial language, especially the language of sports.’
‘If I need to respond, I do so in colloquial English using my thickest Northern accent.’
‘Either it was done in a great hurry, or the translator has only a passing acquaintance with colloquial English.’
‘She taught colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at the age of 16 as part of an exchange program.’
‘Her ear for colloquial phrases and conversational interplay is equally impressive.’
‘His highly colloquial use of the language had seemed cute at first.’
‘Often they alone preserved the colloquial speech, the real language of everyday use.’
‘It is to this group of ancient hominids that the term ‘ape man’ is most commonly applied today, but the term is informal or colloquial.’
‘Shepard has a gift for combining lyrical description with a colloquial voice.’
‘Your purchase is rational in the normal, colloquial sense of the word but not necessarily in the social science meaning.’
‘However, until the 1920s, few local recipe books used the colloquial name, and then sometimes only as a subtitle.’
‘A boom is a colloquial term for an economy that is expanding above the GDP's average annual growth.’
‘Second, the Arabic tutor will most likely be teaching you a colloquial form of Arabic rather than modern standard Arabic.’
‘This is the origin of the colloquial use of ‘coconut’ to refer to one's head.’
‘The production cries out for a better translation than the uncredited one that veers between stilted and colloquial.’