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

ivory 
(black ivory)
jacket 
(monkey jacket)
jane 
(gi jane)
job 
(do a job; do a job on someone; do
the job; do the job for someone;
don’t give up the day job; hold a job;
hold down a job; interview someone
for a job; interview with someone for
a job; lay down one’s job; lie down
on the job)
joe 
(good joe; holy joe; quality joe;
sloppy joe; sloppy joe’s)
john 
(long john; saint john; saint
john’s; square john; square john
broad)
joke 
(make a joke about something;
make a joke of something)
jordan 
(cross over jordan)
juice 
(snake juice; stew in one’s own
juice)
jump 
(get the jump on someone; give
someone a jump)
jungle 
(law of the jungle)
just 
(only just)
justice 
(bring someone to justice; do
justice to oneself; do justice to some-
one)
keeper 
(time-keeper)
kennel 
(in a kennel)
kent 
(man of kent)
ketchup 
(in the ketchup)
kettle 
(another kettle of fish)
key 
(have the key of the street)
kick 
(for kicks; get a kick; get a kick in
the teeth; give someone the kick;
give someone the kick in the teeth;
more kicks than halfpence)
kick-off 
(for a kick-off )
kickback 
(give someone a kickback)
kill 
(fit to kill; in on the kill; make a
kill; on the kill)
kind 
(all kinds of something; of a
kind; of the kind; pay in kind; repay
in kind)
kindly 
(take kindly of someone; take
kindly to someone)
king 
(books of kings, the; books of the
four kings, the; every man is a king;
every man is a king in his own
house; four kings, the; three kings,
the; water king)