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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases. By Greenville Kleiser. Teachers, Writers, Authors and Scriptwriters. Unblock Your Writers Block. Using; Useful and Significant Phrases. The most significant publication aimed at teachers, writers, authors and scriptwriters to be released in decades. Unleash your potential. There is no better way in which to develop the mental qualities of clearness, accuracy, and precision, and to improve and enlarge the intellectual powers generally, than by regular and painstaking study of judiciously selected phrases and literary expressions. Includes; Useful Phrases; Significant Phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Preposition “by”; Preposition “in”; Preposition “into”; Preposition “to”; Preposition “with”; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases;

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2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to a Song & Dance

Why do people “take 40 winks” and not 50…or 60, or 70? Did someone literally “let the cat out of the bag” at one point in time? Has anyone actually “gone on a wild goose chase”? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this enormous collection, comprised of four bestselling titles: A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs a Tale, Heavens to Betsy! and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words. Dr. Funk, editor-in-chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series, reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always fascinating roots of more than 2,000 vernacular words and expressions. From “kangaroo court” to “one-horse town”, from “face the music” to “hocus-pocus,” it’s an entertaining linguistic journey.

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Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expressions

This reprint edition of Ekman and Friesen’s breakthrough research on the facial expression of emotion uses scores of photographs showing emotions of surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness. The authors of UNMASKING THE FACE explain how to identify these basic emotions correctly and how to tell when people try to mask, simulate, or neutralize them. It features several practical exercises that help actors, teachers, salesmen, counselors, nurses, law-enforcement personnel and physicians — and everyone else who deals with people — to become adept, perceptive readers of the facial expressions of emotions.