Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser

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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a handbook of pertinent expressions, striking similes and terms for embellishing speech and literature. This book can be used to improve vocabulary for reading, writing and speaking alike. Through mastery of words, the most powerful and perfect expression of thought can be delivered orally. Choosing the correct words conveys ideas in a crisp and clear way that will hold and audience's attention. Language can also act as an instrument to reach the human heart and awaken the soul. The author spent years of his life to provide the correct expressions in speech and in writing to help people convey their message excellently and extraordinarily. He has provided a means to increase the vocabulary of a person by practical methodology. This book forms the basis for speaking in a pleasing manner. Practice makes perfect and so here studying this book would surely make anyone an eloquent speaker. Do read this book if you want to master public speaking and develop the mental traits of clarity, exactness and precision.

Episode Date
000 – Introduction
Jan 02, 2026
001 – How To Use This Book
Jan 01, 2026
002 – Plan of Study
Dec 31, 2025
003 – Useful Phrases: abandoned hope – ample culture
Dec 30, 2025
004 – Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness – azure sky
Dec 29, 2025
005 – Useful Phrases: babbling gossip – bygone period
Dec 28, 2025
006 – Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase – collateral duties
Dec 27, 2025
007 – Useful Phrases: collective wisdom – contingent reasons
Dec 26, 2025
008 – Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor – cynical disregard
Dec 25, 2025
009 – Useful Phrases: damaging admission – diligently propagated
Dec 24, 2025
010 – Useful Phrases: dim comprehension – dynastic insolence
Dec 23, 2025
011 – Useful Phrases: eager animosity – entrancing sadness
Dec 22, 2025
012 – Useful Phrases: enveloping presence – exultant condition
Dec 21, 2025
013 – Useful Phrases: facetious mood – flickering conscience
Dec 20, 2025
014 – Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy – futile babble
Dec 19, 2025
015 – Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences – gymnastic agility
Dec 18, 2025
016 – Useful Phrases: habitual deference – hysterical agitation
Dec 17, 2025
017 – Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude – incipient fancy
Dec 16, 2025
018 – Useful Phrases: incisive critic – inquisitional rack
Dec 15, 2025
019 – Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer – isolated splendor
Dec 14, 2025
020 – Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility – lying equivocations
Dec 13, 2025
021 – Useful Phrases: maddening monotony – meteoric splendors
Dec 12, 2025
022 – Useful Phrases: methodical regularity – mythical kingdom
Dec 11, 2025
023 – Useful Phrases: naive manner – overworked drudge
Dec 10, 2025
024 – Useful Phrases: pacific disposition – political malcontent
Dec 09, 2025
025 – Useful Phrases: polluting taints – pyrotechnic outburst
Dec 08, 2025
026 – Useful Phrases: quailing culprit – remarkable sagacity
Dec 07, 2025
027 – Useful Phrases: remedial measure – ruthless commercialism
Dec 06, 2025
028 – Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence – shuddering reluctance
Dec 05, 2025
029 – Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries – starched sterility
Dec 04, 2025
030 – Useful Phrases: starlit eminence – systematic interaction
Dec 03, 2025
031 – Useful Phrases: tacit assumption – tyrannical disposition
Dec 02, 2025
032 – Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity – undue predilection
Dec 01, 2025
033 – Useful Phrases: undulating hills – unpalatable truth
Nov 30, 2025
034 – Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities – utmost scorn
Nov 29, 2025
035 – Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity – vulnerable foe
Nov 28, 2025
036 – Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise – zoologically considered
Nov 27, 2025
037 – Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed – awkwardness and crudity
Nov 26, 2025
038 – Significant Phrases: babel and confusion – civilized and cultured
Nov 25, 2025
039 – Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild – cynical and contemptuous
Nov 24, 2025
040 – Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls – digressive and wanton
Nov 23, 2025
041 – Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating – dwindle and disappear
Nov 22, 2025
042 – Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy – exuberant and infectious
Nov 21, 2025
043 – Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated – futile and untrustworthy
Nov 20, 2025
044 – Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace – hypocrisy and impudence
Nov 19, 2025
045 – Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements – indomitable and dogged
Nov 18, 2025
046 – Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded – isolated and detached
Nov 17, 2025
047 – Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter – luxury and pomp
Nov 16, 2025
048 – Significant Phrases: madness and folly – mystic and wonderful
Nov 15, 2025
049 – Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling – overworked and fagged
Nov 14, 2025
050 – Significant Phrases: pains and penalties – puzzled and affected
Nov 13, 2025
051 – Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence – rust and disuse
Nov 12, 2025
052 – Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy – spacious and lofty
Nov 11, 2025
053 – Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous – sympathetic and consoling
Nov 10, 2025
054 – Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic – tyrant and oppressor
Nov 09, 2025
055 – Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque – vulgar and artificial
Nov 08, 2025
056 – Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic – zigzag and deviating
Nov 07, 2025
057 – Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity – busy, active, and toiling
Nov 06, 2025
058 – Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming – calculated, logical, and dispassionate
Nov 05, 2025
059 – Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched – danger, difficulty, and hardship
Nov 04, 2025
060 – Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence – fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
Nov 03, 2025
061 – Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled – humor, fancy, and susceptibility
Nov 02, 2025
062 – Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate – luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
Nov 01, 2025
063 – Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately – overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
Oct 31, 2025
064 – Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation – puzzles, tangles, and questionings
Oct 30, 2025
065 – Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities – rush, roar, and shriek
Oct 29, 2025
066 – Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness – sympathy, service, and compassion
Oct 28, 2025
067 – Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement – wrinkled, careworn, and pale
Oct 27, 2025
068 – Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,… – business, profession,…
Oct 26, 2025
069 – Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,… – dull, heavy,…
Oct 25, 2025
070 – Impressive Phrases: earth, air,… – gross, academic,..
Oct 24, 2025
071 – Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,… – lucidity, impressiveness,…
Oct 23, 2025
072 – Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,… – purpose, meaning,…
Oct 22, 2025
073 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,… – symmetry, proportion,..
Oct 21, 2025
074 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,… – worry, annoyance,…
Oct 20, 2025
075 – Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity – business of life
Oct 19, 2025
076 – Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium – dust of defeat
Oct 18, 2025
077 – Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm – futility of pride
Oct 17, 2025
078 – Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit – irony of life
Oct 16, 2025
079 – Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds – overflow of vitality
Oct 15, 2025
080 – Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation – ruts of conventionality
Oct 14, 2025
081 – Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul – system of aspersion
Oct 13, 2025
082 – Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania – zone of delusion
Oct 12, 2025
083 – Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals – hushed by denial
Oct 11, 2025
084 – Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty – wrenched by emotions
Oct 10, 2025
085 – Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation – kept in abeyance
Oct 09, 2025
086 – Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory – weak in conception
Oct 08, 2025
087 – Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence – goaded into action
Oct 07, 2025
088 – Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence – withdraw into solitude
Oct 06, 2025
089 – Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery – hostile to progress
Oct 05, 2025
090 – Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion – yield to reason
Oct 04, 2025
091 – Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty – intoxicated with joy
Oct 03, 2025
092 – Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm – work with zeal
Oct 02, 2025
093 – Business Phrases
Oct 01, 2025
094 – Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face – A nimble-witted opponent
Sep 30, 2025
095 – Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind – A wordless farewell
Sep 29, 2025
096 – Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting – Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
Sep 28, 2025
097 – Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth – Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
Sep 27, 2025
098 – Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze – Guilty of girlish sentimentality
Sep 26, 2025
099 – Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage – Humiliating paltriness of revenge
Sep 25, 2025
100 – Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence – Kiss-provoking lips
Sep 24, 2025
101 – Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle – Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues
Sep 23, 2025
102 – Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill – Swift summer into the autumn flowed
Sep 22, 2025
103 – Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind – The hungry curiosity of the mind
Sep 21, 2025
104 – Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought – The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
Sep 20, 2025
105 – Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden – Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
Sep 19, 2025
106 – Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity – Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
Sep 18, 2025
107 – Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him – And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
Sep 17, 2025
108 – Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… – Awkward as a cart-horse
Sep 16, 2025
109 – Striking Similes: Babbling like a child – Dull as champagne
Sep 15, 2025
110 – Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave – Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts …
Sep 14, 2025
111 – Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes – Hushed like a breathless lyre
Sep 13, 2025
112 – Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew – Kingdoms melt away like snow
Sep 12, 2025
113 – Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant – Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
Sep 11, 2025
114 – Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away – Like sweet thoughts in a dream
Sep 10, 2025
115 – Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power – Lovely the land unknown…
Sep 09, 2025
116 – Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay – Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
Sep 08, 2025
117 – Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… – Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
Sep 07, 2025
118 – Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… – The music almost died away…
Sep 06, 2025
119 – Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife – Then the lover sighing like furnace
Sep 05, 2025
120 – Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms – Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
Sep 04, 2025
121 – Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow – Youth like a summer morn
Sep 03, 2025
122 – Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! – Human nature interests me very much indeed
Sep 02, 2025
123 – Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight – I could never forgive myself for that
Sep 01, 2025
124 – Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right – I seem to have heard that sentiment before
Aug 31, 2025
125 – Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it – It has never occurred to me
Aug 30, 2025
126 – Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact – It would take too long to formulate my thought
Aug 29, 2025
127 – Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time – Surely you would not countenance that
Aug 28, 2025
128 – Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you – True, I forgot!
Aug 27, 2025
129 – Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true – Would you mind telling me your opinion?
Aug 26, 2025
130 – Conversational Phrases: Yes and no – Your statement is somewhat startling
Aug 25, 2025
131 – Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment – And next I would ask
Aug 24, 2025
132 – Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention – Away then with the notion
Aug 23, 2025
133 – Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then – But it has been suggested to me
Aug 22, 2025
134 – Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact – By this time it will be suspected
Aug 21, 2025
135 – Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed – Granting all this
Aug 20, 2025
136 – Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said – However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
Aug 19, 2025
137 – Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement – I am willing to know
Aug 18, 2025
138 – Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation – I distrust all general theories of
Aug 17, 2025
139 – Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you – I hasten to concede
Aug 16, 2025
140 – Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion – I hope you will not accuse me
Aug 15, 2025
141 – Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed – I rejoice to think I remark here
Aug 14, 2025
142 – Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made – I thank you very sincerely for the honor
Aug 13, 2025
143 – Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying – I yielded to the earnest solicitations
Aug 12, 2025
144 – Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded – In widening our view
Aug 11, 2025
145 – Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me – It is my present purpose
Aug 10, 2025
146 – Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question – It may still more probably be said
Aug 09, 2025
147 – Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight – Just the reverse is true
Aug 08, 2025
148 – Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation – My regret is intensified by the thought
Aug 07, 2025
149 – Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say – Now, you will understand from this
Aug 06, 2025
150 – Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again – Surely it is not too much for me to say
Aug 05, 2025
151 – Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance – The whole story of civilization
Aug 04, 2025
152 – Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration – Think of the cool disregard
Aug 03, 2025
153 – Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises – Very strange is this indeed
Aug 02, 2025
154 – Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to – What strikes the mind so forcibly
Aug 01, 2025
155 – Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe – Your presence seems to say
Jul 31, 2025
156 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
Jul 30, 2025
157 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
Jul 29, 2025
158 – Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief – Awaited with feverish anxiety
Jul 28, 2025
159 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro – Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
Jul 27, 2025
160 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy – Hopelessly belated in its appearance
Jul 26, 2025
161 – Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him – Its dominating and inspiring influence
Jul 25, 2025
162 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes – Quixotically generous about money
Jul 24, 2025
163 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy – Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
Jul 23, 2025
164 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart – The sycophants of the rich
Jul 22, 2025