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Colloquialism (also
called colloquial language,
everyday language, or
general parlance) is the
linguistic style used for
casual (informal) communication...
- "Southern belle" (from
French belle 'beautiful') is a
colloquialism for a
debutante or
other fashionable young woman in the
planter class of the Antebellum...
- "Cold
enough to
freeze the
balls off (or on) a br**** monkey" (also "br****
monkey weather") is a
colloquial expression used by some
English speakers to...
- Dyslexia,
previously known as word blindness, is a
learning disability that
affects either reading or writing.
Different people are
affected to different...
-
Friendship is a
relationship of
mutual affection between people. It is a
stronger form of
interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "****ociation"...
- In
Catholic theology,
Limbo (Latin: limbus, 'edge' or 'boundary',
referring to the edge of ****) is the
afterlife condition of
those who die in original...
- Slay is a
slang colloquialism that
possibly originated during the 1600s, but
gained its
current LGBT
connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally...
- "It ain't over 'til (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...
- "Internets", also
known as "The Internets", is a Bushism-turned
catchphrase used
humorously to
portray the
speaker as
ignorant about the
Internet or about...
- Old media, or
legacy media, are the m****
media institutions that
dominated prior to the
Information Age;
particularly print media, film studios, music...
