Phrasemaker

The poet is a "phrasemaker"; true; but show us the man in these days who is more than a phrasemaker! ❋ Various (N/A)

He too had borrowed the services of the jobbing phrasemaker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2010)

A prolific phrasemaker, he was noted for his slangy Broadway idiom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Toltz is a superb, disturbing phrasemaker -- Sex: the match that sets off human fireworks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The LA Times recently called him “a superb, disturbing phrasemaker” (Seriously: does praise get any higher than that?) while The Wall Street Journal called A Fraction Of The Whole “a riotously funny first novel … that is harder to ignore than a crate of puppies, twice as playful and just about as messy” (OK: eww) then went on to say the book is “a sort of Voltaire-meets-Vonnegut tale” (OK: wow). ❋ Unknown (2008)

McOndo has many voices, but Fuguet remains the movement's founder and ranking phrasemaker. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm a mover of opinions, if you will; a raker of muck, a gangster of political science, a lethal phrasemaker, a ... well you get the idea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And suddenly, once more, the impish delight of the phrasemaker bursts through. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It seems too probable that our grandchildren will retain nothing of his save the characteristic saying, that 'life would be very tolerable but for its pleasures;' and _that_, probably, will be assigned to some more famous and far less wise _causeur_ or phrasemaker, losing half its force in the transfer. ❋ Various (N/A)

But as soon as we pass from the sciences to social science, (or politics,) we find that here the absence of positive ideas gives the phrasemaker the same power of convincing, as in the early days of physical science was possessed by metaphysicians and poets. ❋ Various (N/A)