Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.
- noun One who makes attractive but often meaningless phrases.
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- noun A
crafter ofphrases ; one who pensbombast orrhetoric .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The poet is a "phrasemaker"; true; but show us the man in these days who is more than a phrasemaker!
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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A prolific phrasemaker, he was noted for his slangy Broadway idiom.
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He too had borrowed the services of the jobbing phrasemaker.
Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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The great phrasemaker who gave the dead horse its first figurative flogging also came up with the "mother of parliaments" line, which no doubt inspired Cash's admirable agitation to retrieve his statue from a dusty warehouse and put him back on display in Birmingham.
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But Jerry Brown, who is a good writer and a very notable phrasemaker, doesn't have to spend three months focusing on and building upon a blank page.
William Bradley: With History Waiting At the Finish Line, Jerry Brown Heads Into the Final Curve of the Race William Bradley 2010
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