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

homework 
(do one’s homework)
honey 
(sweet as honey)
honor 
(do someone honor; do the hon-
ors; lady of honor; maid of honor;
man of honor; military honors)
hook 
(get one’s hooks into someone;
get oneself off the hook; get someone
off the hook; get the hook; go off the
hooks; go on the hook; let someone
off the hook; off the hook; off the
hooks; on one’s own hook; on the
hook)
hop 
(be on the hop; catch someone on
the hop; go on the hop)
horn 
(draw in one’s horns; pull in one’s
horns)
horror 
(get the dry horrors; get the
horrors)
horse 
(be on a high horse; be on the
horse; beat a dead horse; bet on the
wrong horse; dark horse; devil’s
horse; flog a dead horse; flying horse;
flying sea-horse; get off one’s high
horse; get on one’s high horse; get on
one’s horse; heard it from the horse’s
mouth; iron horse; job-horse; play
the horses; ride a white horse; ride
the high horse; ride the white horse;
river-horse; sea-horse; white horse;
work for a dead horse; work horse;
work off the dead horse)
hostess 
(tea hostess)
hot 
(bit hot, a; blow hot and cold; feel
hot; get hot; get hot and bothered;
get hot under the collar; get it hot;
get the hots for someone; give it hot
to someone; go hot and cold; hot
and hot; make it hot for someone;
make someone hot; not feel so hot;
not too hot; red hots; too hot to
handle)
hour 
(all hours; at all hours; at any
hour; bad hours; by the hour; coffee
hour; good hour; happy hour; keep
bad hours; keep good hours; on the
half hour; on the hour; out of hours;
question of the hour; short hours;
small hours; take one’s hour; zero
hour)
house 
(big house; break into a house;
bring the house down; cat house;
country house; dead house; death
house; do a house; do up a house;
dog-house; eat someone out of house
and home; father of the house, the;
garden house; get on like a house on
fire; gin house; go like a house on
fire; go round the houses; green
house; ice house; keep a house; keep
house; keep open house; little house;
live in a glass house; low house;
lower house; make a house; man of
the house; mansion house; master of
one’s own house; master of the
house; on the house; open house;
orchard house; planetary house;
public house; pull the house down;
rest house; semi-detached house; set
up house; shout the house down;
state house; state house; town house;
warm house; warming house; wash-
house; water house; watering house;
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