Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

a practical handbook of pertinent expressions, striking similes, literary, commercial, conversational, and oratorical terms , for the embellishment of speech and literature, and the improvement of the vocabulary of those persons who read, write, and speak english.

by grenville kleiser.

His tone verged on ironical…

From Chapter XI, Miscellaneous Phrases

I might go further…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

An inscrutable mystery…

From Chapter XI, Miscellaneous Phrases

Does it not shock you to think…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

Let our conception be enlarged…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

Cheap and convenient…

From Chapter II, Significant Phrases

I can by no calculation justify…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

Don’t let me encroach on your good nature…

From Chapter IX, Conversational Phrases

Does any man say…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

It’s so kind of you to come…

From Chapter IX, Conversational Phrases

A bloodless diplomatist…

From Chapter XI, Miscellaneous Phrases

Credulous and emotionally extravagant…

From Chapter XI, Miscellaneous Phrases

And here I am led to observe…

From Chapter X, Public speaking Phrases

A man in my situation has…

From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases

That is a superb piece of work…

From Chapter IX, Conversational Phrases