Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Grenville Kleiser
165 chapters · 15 h 58 min · English
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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
Chapters
1 Introduction 12 min 2 How To Use This Book 5 min 3 Plan Of Study 5 min 4 Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture 5 min 5 Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky 4 min 6 Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period 4 min 7 Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties 3 min 8 Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons 3 min 9 Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard 4 min 10 Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated 6 min 11 Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence 6 min 12 Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness 6 min 13 Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition 5 min 14 Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience 3 min 15 Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble 3 min 16 Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility 5 min 17 Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation 5 min 18 Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy 7 min 19 Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack 6 min 20 Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor 6 min 21 Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations 6 min 22 Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors 4 min 23 Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom 4 min 24 Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge 6 min 25 Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent 7 min 26 Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst 9 min 27 Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity 3 min 28 Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism 3 min 29 Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance 5 min 30 Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility 5 min 31 Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction 4 min 32 Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition 5 min 33 Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection 4 min 34 Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth 4 min 35 Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn 4 min 36 Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe 3 min 37 Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered 3 min 38 Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity 4 min 39 Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured 5 min 40 Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous 5 min 41 Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton 4 min 42 Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear 5 min 43 Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious 6 min 44 Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy 5 min 45 Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence 5 min 46 Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged 3 min 47 Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached 4 min 48 Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp 4 min 49 Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful 3 min 50 Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged 4 min 51 Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected 6 min 52 Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse 5 min 53 Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty 4 min 54 Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling 4 min 55 Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor 5 min 56 Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial 6 min 57 Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating 2 min 58 Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling 4 min 59 Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate 4 min 60 Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship 5 min 61 Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy 5 min 62 Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility 4 min 63 Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish 4 min 64 Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome 4 min 65 Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings 4 min 66 Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek 3 min 67 Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion 4 min 68 Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale 5 min 69 Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,.. 5 min 70 Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,.. 6 min 71 Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,. 6 min 72 Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,.. 6 min 73 Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,.. 6 min 74 Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,. 4 min 75 Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,.. 4 min 76 Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life 5 min 77 Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat 4 min 78 Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride 4 min 79 Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life 4 min 80 Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality 4 min 81 Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality 5 min 82 Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion 4 min 83 Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion 4 min 84 Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial 3 min 85 Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions 4 min 86 Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance 3 min 87 Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception 4 min 88 Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action 2 min 89 Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude 2 min 90 Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress 2 min 91 Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason 2 min 92 Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy 2 min 93 Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal 2 min 94 Business Phrases 25 min 95 Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent 7 min 96 Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell 6 min 97 Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence 8 min 98 Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows 7 min 99 Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality 4 min 100 Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge 9 min 101 Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips 5 min 102 Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues 11 min 103 Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed 7 min 104 Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind 8 min 105 Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries 10 min 106 Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind 6 min 107 Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content 4 min 108 Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech 11 min 109 Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse 7 min 110 Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne 7 min 111 Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts .. 5 min 112 Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre 9 min 113 Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow 4 min 114 Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs 7 min 115 Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream 7 min 116 Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown.. 7 min 117 Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start 7 min 118 Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye 10 min 119 Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away.. 7 min 120 Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace 8 min 121 Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle 6 min 122 Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn 8 min 123 Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed 7 min 124 Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that 7 min 125 Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before 9 min 126 Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me 7 min 127 Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought 6 min 128 Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that 7 min 129 Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot! 7 min 130 Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? 4 min 131 Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling 5 min 132 Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask 7 min 133 Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion 8 min 134 Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me 5 min 135 Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected 4 min 136 Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this 4 min 137 Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing 3 min 138 Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know 6 min 139 Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of 8 min 140 Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede 8 min 141 Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me 12 min 142 Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here 9 min 143 Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor 10 min 144 Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations 11 min 145 Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view 11 min 146 Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose 9 min 147 Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said 6 min 148 Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true 5 min 149 Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought 8 min 150 Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this 6 min 151 Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say 8 min 152 Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization 7 min 153 Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard 6 min 154 Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed 5 min 155 Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly 9 min 156 Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say 7 min 157 Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language 7 min 158 Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts 7 min 159 Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety 6 min 160 Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions 7 min 161 Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance 10 min 162 Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence 11 min 163 Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money 11 min 164 Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling 8 min 165 Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich 12 min
