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

righteous 
(self-righteous)
ring 
(be ringed; be rung)
rise 
(at rise; at the rise; get a rise; get a
rise out of someone; give someone a
rise; on the rise; take the rise out of
someone)
risk 
(at one’s risk; at risk)
river 
(down the river; go down the
river; go up the river; row someone
up salt river; sell someone down the
river; send someone down the river;
send someone up the river; up the
river)
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Key Word Index

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road 
(hit the road; in the road; mid-
dle-of-the-road; on the road; slip
road; slippery road; take the road;
take to the road)
robe 
(long robes)
rock 
(between a rock and a hard place)
roe 
(richard roe)
roof 
(go through the roof; hit the roof )
room 
(clean room; dead room; dirty
room; do the room; double room;
green room; gun room; make room;
pace out the room; pace the room;
receiving room; reception room; rest
room; seating room; sitting room;
twin room)
roost 
(go to roost; rule the roost)
root 
(strike at the root; strike root)
rope 
(dead rope; death rope; hang in
the bell-ropes; on a rope; on the
rope; on the ropes; pin someone on
the ropes; put someone up to the
ropes)
rose 
(bed of roses; come up roses; come
up smelling of roses; fresh as a rose;
roses, roses all the way; stop and
smell the roses; take time to smell
the roses; tudor rose; under the rose)
round 
(in a round; in the round)
route 
(all-red route; milk and honey
route; milk route; red route)
row 
(hard row to hoe; hoe one’s own
row; tough row to hoe)