n.

1. Colloquial style or quality.
2. A colloquial expression.

colloquialism, the use of informal expressions appropriate to everyday speech rather than to the formality of writing, and differing in pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar. An example is Kipling's ballad beginning

When 'Omer smote ‘is bloomin’ lyre
He'd 'eard men sing by land and sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
‘E went an’took—the same as me!

See also demotic, diction.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - udtryk fra dagligsproget, brug af dagligsproget

Nederlands (Dutch)
uitdrukking in spreektaal, informele stijl

Français (French)
n. - expression familière

Deutsch (German)
n. - Umgangssprache, umgangssprachlicher Ausdruck

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - όρος της καθομιλουμένης

Italiano (Italian)
colloquialismo, espressione familiare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - coloquialismo (m), linguagem (f) familiar

Русский (Russian)
разговорное выражение

Español (Spanish)
n. - expresión coloquial, expresión familiar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - talspråksuttryck, vardagsuttryck

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
俗话, 口语, 白话

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 俗話, 口語, 白話

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 구어 , 구어체

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 口語体

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تعبير عامي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ביטוי דיבורי‬

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