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

Grenville Kleiser (1868–1953) was a North American author. He was the author of a long list of inspirational books and guides to oratorical success and personal development. Kleiser also worked as an instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School, Yale University.

Kleiser was born in 1868 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He married Elizabeth Thompson in 1894. Grenville died on August 27, 1953 in New York City.

Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1935)

000 - Introduction


001 - How To Use This Book


002 - Plan of Study


003 - Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture


004 - Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky


005 - Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period


006 - Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties


007 - Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons


008 - Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard


009 - Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated


010 - Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence


011 - Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness


012 - Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition


013 - Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience


014 - Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble


015 - Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility


016 - Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation


017 - Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy


018 - Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack


019 - Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor


020 - Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations


021 - Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors


022 - Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom


023 - Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge


024 - Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent


025 - Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst


026 - Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity


027 - Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism


028 - Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance


029 - Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility


030 - Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction


031 - Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition


032 - Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection


033 - Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth


034 - Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn


035 - Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe


036 - Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered


037 - Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity


038 - Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured


039 - Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous


040 - Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton


041 - Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear


042 - Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious


043 - Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy


044 - Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence


045 - Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged


046 - Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached


047 - Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp


048 - Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful


049 - Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged


050 - Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected


051 - Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse


052 - Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty


053 - Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling


054 - Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor


055 - Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial


056 - Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating


057 - Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling


058 - Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate


059 - Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship


060 - Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy


061 - Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility


062 - Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish


063 - Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome


064 - Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings


065 - Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek


066 - Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion


067 - Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale


068 - Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...


069 - Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...


070 - Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..


071 - Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...


072 - Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...


073 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..


074 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...


075 - Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity - business of life


076 - Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium - dust of defeat


077 - Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride


078 - Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit - irony of life


079 - Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality


080 - Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation - ruts of conventionality


081 - Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul - system of aspersion


082 - Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania - zone of delusion


083 - Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals - hushed by denial


084 - Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions


085 - Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance


086 - Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory - weak in conception


087 - Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence - goaded into action


088 - Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude


089 - Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery - hostile to progress


090 - Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion - yield to reason


091 - Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy


092 - Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal


093 - Business Phrases


094 - Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent


095 - Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell


096 - Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence


097 - Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows


098 - Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality


099 - Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge


100 - Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips


101 - Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues


102 - Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed


103 - Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind


104 - Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries


105 - Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind


106 - Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content


107 - Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech


108 - Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse


109 - Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne


110 - Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts...


111 - Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre


112 - Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow


113 - Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs


114 - Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream


115 - Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...


116 - Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start


117 - Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye


118 - Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...


119 - Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace


120 - Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle


121 - Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn


122 - Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed


123 - Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that


124 - Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before


125 - Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me


126 - Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought


127 - Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that


128 - Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!


129 - Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?


130 - Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling


131 - Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask


132 - Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion


133 - Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me


134 - Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected


135 - Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this


136 - Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing


137 - Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know


138 - Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general


139 - Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede


140 - Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me


141 - Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here


142 - Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor


143 - Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations


144 - Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view


145 - Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose


146 - Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said


147 - Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true


148 - Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought


149 - Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this


150 - Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say


151 - Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization


152 - Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard


153 - Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed


154 - Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly


155 - Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say


156 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language


157 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts


158 - Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety


159 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions


160 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance


161 - Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence


162 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money


163 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling


164 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

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