Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A practical treasury of ready-made phrases and expressions, gathered to help writers and speakers reach for the apt word with grace, precision and a little more colour.

At a glance Part reference shelf, part quiet writing companion, this is a book built for anyone who… What it's about Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is exactly what its title promises: a… Compiled by Grenville Kleiser, a well-known author of guides to rhetoric and… Themes The book belongs to a distinctly early-twentieth-century tradition of…

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is exactly what its title promises: a vast, organised collection of expressions, striking adjectives, familiar quotations and turns of phrase, arranged so that a writer or public speaker…