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

lemon 
(answer is a lemon, the; it’s a
lemon)
length 
(at full length; at length; go to
great lengths)
less 
(no less than; nothing less than)
lesson 
(learn one’s lesson)
letter 
(air letter; airmail letter ; cover
letter; man of letters)
level 
(on a level; on the level; third
level)
liberty 
(take a liberty; take the liberty)
library 
(lending library)
license 
(driver’s license)
lick 
(calf-lick; cat’s lick; cat-lick)
lid 
(eve with a lid on; eve with a moldy
lid; keep one’s lid on; keep the lid on
someone; lift the lid off something;
put the lid on something; put the tin
lid on something; take the lid off
something)
life 
(be a bad life; be a good life; cat
has nine lives, a; change of life;
changes of life; cost of life; dog’s life;
everlasting life; expectation of life;
fact of life; facts of life; for life; for
one’s life; get a life; get life; give
one’s life for something; give one’s
life to something; have a new lease of
life; in the prime of life; large as life;
larger than life; late on in life; later
on in life; lead a cat and dog life;
lead a dog’s life; line of life; live a
bad life; live a cat and dog life; live a
dog’s life; live a good life; make a life
for oneself; make a new life for one-
self; put life into something; put
one’s life in someone’s hands; put
something into life; real life; road of
life; see life; see life whole; story of
one’s life; take one’s life; take one’s
life in both hands; take one’s life in
one’s hands; that’s life; this is the
life; time of life; time of one’s life;
walk of life; way of life)
lifetime 
(in one’s lifetime)