He has a great ear for the common speech of the day.

Therefore, between your people and mine there can be a common speech.

This was a figure of speech common to the sailors at the time.

To three of those in the ship, it had been common speech for centuries.

And my vocabulary is restricted to just the common speech.

Specific words can go from argot into common speech or the other way.

There was no common speech by which he might learn what he wanted to know.

In between the two, we find the new common speech, which is based on the standard, but has a strong substratum from the traditional language.

But in Ibsen's day the use of common speech was shocking.

The phrase is used in literature and common speech to refer to people selling out.