He's got the ticket: Not all Grammy tickets are created to give equal access. Adrian Diaz is director of ticketing for the Grammy Awards and knows which ticket means you sit close to the stage and which ticket means you're stuck in the equivalent of the Grammys bleachers.
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. firewall - (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust; he moved the throttle to the firewall.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Colloquialism. A colloquialism is a word, phrase or paralanguage that is employed in conversational or informal language but not in formal speech or formal writing. Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq. as an identifier.