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

machine 
(ghost in the machine; slot
machine; slotting machine; tape
machine; washing machine; wash-
ing-up machine)
madam 
(little madam)
magician 
(great magician of the north,
the)
maid 
(bar maid; between maid; kitchen
maid; ladies’ maid; old maid; univer-
sal maid)
maiden 
(ice maiden; iron maiden)
make 
(have it made; have made it; in
the make; on the make)
man 
(action man; as a man; as one
man; bad man; be a man of charac-
ter; be someone’s right-hand man;
become another man; best man; boat
man; bumboat man; call man; career
man; child of man; city man; city
man; clothes man; color man; com-
mon man; copy man; corpse-man;
cow man; day-man; dead man; dead
man walking; dog man; early man;
every man for himself; every man
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Key Word Index

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jack; fallen man; family man; fancy
man; fantasy man; feel like a new
man; fortunate man; foxy man; front
man; god-man; godly man; good
man; good-time man; green man;
gutter man; half a man; half-baked
man; handbook man; handy-man;
head man; high man on the totem
pole; high-up man; honor-man; hot
dog man; house man; ice man; inner
man; inside man; iron man; kentish
man; key man; ladies’ man; landed
man; leading man; left-hand man;
left-handed man; leg man; liberty
man; like a man; little green men;
little men; little men with hammers;
low man; low man on the totem
pole; lucky man; made man; main
man; man of men; man’s man; man-
to-man; marked man; medical man;
medicine man; moon man; natural
man; neither man nor mouse; nerv-
ous man; new man; night man; odd
man; odd man out; old light men;
old-clothes man; one’s man; one’s
own man; outdoor man; outer man;
outside man; party man; pivot man;
pivotal man; plain men; plane man;
poster man; property man; real men;
right-hand man; right-handed man;
safety man; sandwich man; senior
man; separate the men from the
boys; small men; snow man; son of
man, the; son of man; sporting man;
station man; steel man; stick man;
stickup man; straight man; straw
man; street man; strong man; strong
silent man; strong-arm man; sweet
man; swing man; tea man; telephone
man; tent-man; to a man; top man;
toy man; transit man; trouble man;
water-man; well man; well-made
man; white man; widow’s man;
widow-man; wise man; wise men of
gotham; wise men of the east;
woman’s man; woman-man; working
man; worldly man; yellow man; yes-
terday’s man; you’re a good man,
charlie brown; young man)