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.
So what causes us to be able to see the moon during the day? The moon has an orbit around the earth and we can see it at night because of the reflection of the sunâs rays and energy that bounce back to the earth. This is what gives the moon the brilliant white glow. Itâs important to also remember that the earth has a rotation and an orbit around the sun.
At new phase the Moon is in the same direction as the Sun as seen from the Earth, so the Earth's shadow cannot be why you just see the night side of the Moon. The sequence of pictures below shows a technique you can use to figure out how a Moon phase will look from the Earth when you start from an orrery or space view of the Moon, i.e., how to translate from the orrery (space) view of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth to the ground-based view.