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

shower 
(come down in the last shower)
shut-eye 
(get some shut-eye)
sick 
(be on the sick; get sick; go sick)
sickness 
(green sickness; heart-sick-
ness)
side 
(another side on the boat; at the
side of someone; at the side of some-
thing; butter one’s bread on both
sides; know on which side one’s
bread is buttered; look on the bright
side of something; on one’s side; on
someone’s good side; on someone’s
side; on the credit side; on the
downhill side; on the large side; on
the other side; on the other side of
the fence; on the other side of the
hill; on the other side of the tracks;
on the right side of the hedge; on the
side; on the side of someone; on the
side of something; on the wrong side
of the tracks; other side, the; other
side of the coin, the; other side of
the hill, the; put something on one
side; stay on the right side of some-
one; take someone on one side; walk
both sides of the street)
sidelines 
(on the sidelines)
sight 
(at first sight; at sight; at the
sight of someone; be a sight; be a
sight for sore eyes; be a sight to
behold; do something sight unseen;
have something in one’s sights; in
one’s sight; in one’s sights; in sight;
in the sight of someone; out of one’s
sight; out of sight; raise one’s sights;
set one’s sights on something)
signal 
(aural signal; oral signal)
silence 
(break one’s silence; break the
silence)
silver 
(bring home the silver)
simple 
(plain and simple; pure and
simple)
sister 
(sob sister; sobbing sisters)
size 
(cut someone down to size; of a
size; of some size; that’s about the
size of it; that’s about your size)