Colloquialism

Col`lo´qui`al`ism

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

Noun

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

aggro, all, all over, all right, alright, altogether, anon, anyplace, anywhere, apparently, at any rate, at least, awful, awfully, backbone, bang, banger, bare bones, barnburner, bay window, bib-and-tucker, big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, biz, blahs, blessed event, bloke, blue moon, boiling, bolt, boom box, borscht belt, borscht circuit, borsht belt, borsht circuit, break, bull, bull session, bunny, bunny rabbit, buy the farm, by all means, by no means, can of worms, canary, cannon fodder, card, cash in one's chips, certainly, charley horse, charley-horse, choke, class, cleanup, clone, comfortable, comfy, completely, conk, cop, copper, corporation, countenance, crack, crapshoot, creeps, croak, crosshairs, dead ringer, decamp, delf, dick, dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird, dickybird, dimwit, dingdong, dodo, don't-know, doofus, double Dutch, drag, drink, drop dead, dud, dumps, easily, easy, enormity, entirely, everyplace, everywhere, evidently, expression, eye, fence, figure, firewall, firewater, fix, flop, fogey, fogy, foot, for certain, for sure, forever, forever and a day, formulation, fossil, frazzle, fresh fish, frightfully, fuddy-duddy, fug, fun, funny wagon, fuzz, gal, game, geezer, ghetto blaster, give it a try, give it a whirl, give-up the ghost, giveaway, gloomy Gus, good, good and, grayback, grit, gumption, gumshoe, guts, half-wit, hang-up, happy event, hawkshaw, head, head honcho, headhunter, heaps, heavy lifting, hell, homestretch, hoof, hoof it, hopelessly, horniness, hot pants, hot stuff, hotness, huddle, hustler, ice, in a pig's eye, irregardless, Johnny, Johnny Reb, jolly, keep one's eyes open, keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned, kick the bucket, killing, killjoy, kisser, know-all, know-it-all, lazybones, leastways, leastwise, leg it, lemon, like crazy, like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder, load, long johns, maffia, mafia, main drag, man, manifestly, meal ticket, middlebrow, month of Sundays, mopes, mouth, mouthpiece, moxie, mug, negative stimulation, nitwit, no-brainer, not by a blame sight, not by a long sight, not very likely, number, number one, O.K., obviously, oculus, okay, operator, optic, paperhanger, party pooper, patently, peeper, pep talk, pertainym, phiz, physiognomy, picklepuss, pickup, pig, plague, plain, plainly, plop, plum, plumb, plump, plunk, pop off, pot, potbelly, pouter, powwow, pretty, proboscis, put-down, put-put, rainmaker, rap, rathole, rattrap, Reb, Rebel, redbrick university, right, right smart, ringer, Ritz, rough, roughly, sand, security blanket, setup, shoofly, shooting gallery, shot, sin, size, size of it, skip, slap, slapdash, slow, slowly, smack, smiler, smoke, snogging, snuff it, soft, someplace, somewhere, soundly, soup, soup-strainer, sourpuss, sparkler, spoilsport, square, square toes, squelch, squelcher, state, sticks and stone, stinker, street, stuffed shirt, Sunday best, Sunday clothes, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely, swad, swag, sweet, sweetly, takedown, tardily, teaser, terribly, think, thoroughly, throw, thrush, toothbrush, totally, townee, tummy, turf, turn-on, turnoff, vamoose, visage, wag, war paint, wash, washout, way, ways, week from Monday, wet blanket, wheeler dealer, whole, wholly, wit, woman