A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

eyeball 
(be eyeball to eyeball; get an
eyeball on someone)
eyeroll 
(give someone the eyeroll)
face 
(do faces; face to face; have a face
as long as a fiddle; have a face made
of a fiddle; have the face; have two
faces; in the face of it; in the face of
something; keep a straight face; keep
one’s face; look someone in the face;
lose face; lose one’s face; make a
face; make face; make faces; on the
face of it; on the face of something;
pull a face; pull a long face; put
one’s best face on; put one’s face on;
save one’s face; show a face; show
one’s face; stare someone in the face;
till one is blue in the face)
fact 
(in fact)
faint 
(feel faint at something; feel faint
from something)
faith 
(in faith; in good faith)
fall 
(leaf fall; take a fall; take the fall)
fallout 
(have a fallout)
family 
(happy families; happy family;
man of family)
fancy 
(take a fancy to someone; take
the fancy of someone)
far 
(as far; as far as; as far as one can
see; so far; so far as)
farm 
(buy the farm; give away the
farm; sell the farm)
fashion 
(in a fashion; in fashion; in the
fashion)
fat 
(chew the fat; live off the fat of the
land)
father 
(god the father; house father)
favor 
(in favor of someone; in favor
with someone)
fear 
(for fear of something; have no
fear for something; have no fear of
something; in fear of something;
never fear; no fear)
feast 
(skeleton at the feast, a)
feather 
(make the feathers fly; show the
white feather)
feed 
(chicken feed; off one’s feed; on
the feed)