local colour BrE
local color AmE

I'd thought they were out with a guide trying to rake up some local colour.

But by the local colour the cry was unheeded as ever.

In spite of this, there is little attempt to give the score local colour.

Its tunes are graceful and pleasant, full of local colour.

For good measure and local colour, he took some more pictures of Branson's men.

There was nothing but a film crew in a van, shooting some background local colour.

The light-hearted books are appreciated for their human interest and local colour.

Did you find it so absorbing to gather a little local colour?"

More established resorts improve a lot on these standards, but perhaps offer less local colour and charm.

Every second page has an idea thrown in for local colour that other authors would build entire novels around.

Brazzaville's markets are its main attraction and provide an assault of local colour.

Rebus wondered if they were paid to come in and add the requisite local colour.

It reappears later and adds a bit of Provençal local colour to the piece.

Local colour rarely adds that much to a game.'

Probably took a quiet tenner to turn a blind eye, and threw in the horse for local colour.

Comparatively little local colour, but some good grotesques among the passengers - of which the film took advantage.

Cherubini made great use of local colour in his music for Eliza.

This vast, old-fashioned covered market is brimming with local colour and exotic smells.

'All I've given you so far is a little local colour.'

Some historians think their importance may have been exaggerated to add "local colour" to academic theological disputes.

Show him a little local colour.

Marschner, however, made no attempt to introduce any local colour into his score.

In literary terms, most of the usage has been in either poetry or dialogue, to add "local colour".

A job after their own hearts, I provided them with plenty of money for local colour: they'll be drinking 1 away steadily for hours yet.

It's our murderer's touch of local colour!

How can I put any local color in my story?

I'd like to include local color and stories in my research.

Then, it had all seemed part of the local color.

There is much more to this than a show of local color.

This leaves the problem of what might best be called too much local color.

He has the eye for local color and the telling moment on the road.

Kind of like local color having me on the job."

It's the kind of local color you can only get by running for president."

His library and study reveal a man who had no interest in local color.

The play benefits from both local color and period flavor.

Get in touch with that country, and your local color will convince.

Of local color and subject matter he sees no shortage.

"Might as well pretend we're interested in some of this local color."

That, presumably, is intended as a form of local color.

The natural beauty and local color of the city figure prominently.

Some insist on nostalgia or local color, others the new and the modern.

The movie is "made in black-and-white but full of local color".

They're good local color, but the noise does get to one after a while."

"It has a mystical history and so much local color.

The action never flags; the local color rings true throughout.

"If you want local color, all you have to do is look in the other side of your bed."

But otherwise, he avoided local color and gave his standard campaign speech.

Always with a few priests thrown in, a bow to local color.

Allie had already begun to work on some "local color."

Its tunes are graceful and pleasant, full of local color.