phrasemaker
Americannoun
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a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
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a person who makes catchy but often meaningless or empty statements.
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That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2016
You’re quite the phrasemaker: “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2014
The humour was sometimes juvenile, and the shows lacked structure, but he was already a great phrasemaker and his outsider, bruised-idealist worldview was compelling.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2012
He was distinguish- ed as an erudite pundit, a writer of stylish prose and a lively phrasemaker.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2010
Phrasemaker for phrasemaker, we prefer the poet to the politician; Victor Hugo to L�on Faucher; Lamartine to Odilon Barrot; Lamennais to Baroche.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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