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.
An informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. Colloquialisms are not substandard or illiterate speech, says Maity Schrecengost. Rather, they are idioms, conversational phrases, and informal speech patterns often common to a particular region or nationality. Not found everywhere, colloquialisms are words and phrases that we learn at home rather than at school (Writing Whizardry, 2010). See Examples and Observations below.