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Definition of Phrasemakers
1. phrasemaker [n] - See also: phrasemaker
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Literary usage of Phrasemakers
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1. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"For any one who has seen much of phrasemakers knows how they smack their lips
over their own good things and how a shade of regret passes over their faces ..."
2. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"He knew well enough that there were many phrasemakers and chatterers in France;
but Germany, too, had her Hofrats, philistines, and other rabble. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"... is Truthe:" and he added this poetical caution to the " phrasemakers," ambitious
of the personal display of tine writing: " Of smoothe and ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1882)
"The age •of talkers must precede the age of practical reformers. To this class
of phrasemakers— " minikin ..."
5. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"Czech-Slovak culture was higher than that of the Slavs to the east, and phrasemakers
were wont to say that Czechoslovakia was the easternmost of the western ..."
6. The Foreign Relations of the United States by Henry Raymond Mussey, Stephen Pierce Hayden Duggan, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) (1917)
"And unless we see that the people are allowed to exercise that right in complete
freedom, we are mere phrasemakers in our declaration that we fight for the ..."
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