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I dare the audience to name anything he can't play right off the bat songs, opera, Gregorian chants, sonatas, jazz and if he can't play it, the person that asked for it gets a free ticket." "So to use a colloquialism you're going very strong?" "To use another colloquialism," said Henry, "we fairly reek with prosperity, and we're going to double our business.
A colloquialism "hyphenate" has latterly grown up to meet the need of a term to designate these evasive and yet patriotic colonists. It is scarcely misleading to say that the German-American hyphenate, e.g., in so far as he runs true to form, is still a German subject with his heart, but he is an American citizen with his head.
Here they are, and, to use a colloquialism, I want to rub them in. Not to glorify my own acumen or to minimize yours, you showed good judgment to insure your property, but to prove to you that you made a mistake about me." "A mistake?" said the other man. "A colossal mistake. Your only objection to me as a son-in-law was on financial grounds.
He inherited none of Thackeray's bitterness, but upon every other ground as an author, at least, he descends from Thackeray, notably in the studied colloquialism of his style when writing, and in a general friendliness to the Philistine. And in his drawings in Punch his satire is aimed in the same direction as Thackeray's always was.
Hilda was on one side of me; Lady Meadowcroft on the other; and beyond her again, bluff Yorkshire Sir Ivor, with his cold, hard, honest blue North Country eyes, and his dignified, pompous English, breaking down at times into a North Country colloquialism. They talked chiefly to each other.
That one skilfully concealed his real feelings under a show of feigned interest. "You never say!" exclaimed Davidge, dropping into a favourite colloquialism of his native county. "Dear me, today! A man that you knew, Mr. Burchill, and that for the present you'll call Mr. X. You knew him well, then?" "Better than I know you," replied Burchill.
"Ah but I WAS the means!" Mr. Flack interrupted. "We must go, after all, by what DID happen." "Well, I thanked you when I drove with you and let you draw me out. So we're square, aren't we?" The term Francie used was a colloquialism generally associated with levity, but her face, as she spoke, was none the less deeply serious serious even to pain. "We're square?" he repeated.
Yet I am satisfied that the very name of our Club a common Spanish colloquialism, literally meaning "a little more or less," and adopted in Californian slang to express an unknown quantity was supposed to be replete with deep and convulsing humor.
Now "awfully sorry" is not a western colloquialism, and the girl looked at him attentively. She liked his voice, and she rather liked his face, which, since he had not been called the Kid for nothing, was ingenuous. She laughed a little. Then she remembered something she had noticed. "Well," she observed, "I suppose you couldn't help it. That load was too heavy; and aren't you a little lame?"
The language of a speech is largely determined by the man's habit of mind, the nature of his subject, and the character of his audience. Students often err in one of two directions, either by being too bookish in language or by allowing the other extreme of looseness, weak colloquialism in words, and formless monotony of sentence, with the endless repetition of the connective "and."
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