Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Grenville Kleiser was an instructor of public speaking at Yale Divinity School and a prolific author of self-improvement handbooks in the early decades of the twentieth century. Published by Funk & Wagnalls in 1917, this volume gathers fifteen thousand serviceable expressions — striking similes, polished adjectival phrases, classical allusions, business and literary turns — organised by category so a writer or speaker can reach for the right note quickly. It belongs to the same tradition as *Roget* but with a stylistic rather than synonymous orientation: less about finding the word and more about finding the phrase.