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Colloquialism (/kəˈloʊkwiəˌlɪzm, koʊ-/) – also
called colloquial language,
everyday language, or
general parlance – is the
linguistic style used for casual...
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Friendship is a
relationship of
mutual affection between people. It is a
stronger form of
interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "****ociation"...
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Southern belle (from
French belle 'beautiful') is a
colloquialism for a
debutante in the
planter class of the
Antebellum South. The
image of a Southern...
- Dyslexia,
previously known as word blindness, is a
learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that
affects either reading or writing. Different...
- "Cold
enough to
freeze the
balls off (or on) a br**** monkey" is a
colloquial expression used by some
English speakers to
describe extremely cold weather...
- In
Catholic theology,
Limbo (Latin: limbus, 'edge' or 'boundary',
referring to the edge of ****) is the
afterlife condition of
those who die in original...
- "It ain't over till (or until) the fat lady sings" is a
colloquialism which is
often used as a proverb. It
means that one
should not
presume to know the...
- The term
tandai (****anese: 探題) is a
Kamakura and
Muromachi period colloquialism for any very
important governmental,
judiciary or
military post in a determinate...
- "Internets", also
known as "The Internets", is a Bushism-turned-catchphrase used
humorously to
portray the
speaker as
ignorant about the
Internet or about...
- of contexts, it has lost much of its
offensive character,
becoming a
colloquialism. It is
common to use both
meanings of the term interchangeably: To denote...
