Idea Generator for Writers

Phrasefinder is a small company based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It owns the Phrase Thesaurus service, a searchable database of phrases. The company allows access via online subscriptions. How the project came to be:

The Phrase Thesaurus product was developed as part of a computational linguistics project that ran at Sheffield Hallam University from 1997 to 2001. The database was transferred to a commercial server in Nov 2001. That research also produced the Phrase Finder website which provides public access to the meanings and origins of many phrases and sayings in English.

They also indicate that professional writers, language lovers, journalists, advertising copywriters and songwriters find this online thesaurus an invaluable resource when looking for that elusive turn of phrase. You can try out limited sets of one or two-word phrases to see some results for free.

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