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

shine 
(take a shine to someone; take
the shine out of someone)
ship 
(abandon ship; clear a ship; clear a
ship for action; dead ship; death
ship; don’t give up the ship; fire ship;
ghost ship; give up the ship; guard
ship; liberty ship; long ship; post
ship; sister ship; stone ship; when
one’s ship comes home)
shirt 
(keep one’s shirt on; lose one’s
shirt)
shoe 
(be in someone’s shoes; court
shoes; fill someone’s shoes; old shoe;
put oneself in someone’s shoes; put
the shoe on the right foot; snow
shoes; step into someone’s shoes)
shoestring 
(on a shoestring)
shoot 
(duck shoot)
shop 
(body shop; close up a shop; close
up shop; closed shop; keep a shop;
keep shop; shut up a shop; shut up
shop; talk shop; talk-shop)
shopper 
(body shopper)
shore 
(in shore; on shore)
short (be a little short of something; be
little short of something; bring
someone up short; come short; cut
someone short; draw the short straw;
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for short; get the short end of the
stick; go short of something; in
short; nothing short of; run short;
run short of something; taken short;
taken up short)
shot 
(big shot; call one’s shots; call the
shots; get a shot at something; give it
a shot; give oneself a shot in the
arm; give something a shot; large
shot)
shotgun 
(call shotgun)
shoulder 
(head and shoulders above
someone; on one’s shoulders; put
one’s shoulder to the wheel)
show 
(do a show; dog and pony show;
dog show; dog’s show; for show; get
the show on the road; in show; leg-
show; make a show; on show; put up
a good show; put up a show; road
show; steal the show; stop the show)