Need a useful phrase? In 1917 Grenville Kleiser assembled a collection of 15,000 of them, and published what he termed "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". This skill chooses one of the 15,000 at random.
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