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

statesman 
(mother of southwestern
statesmen, the)
station 
(weather station)
statistics 
(vital statistics)
steady 
(go steady with someone; go
steady with something)
steam 
(blow off steam; get steamed up;
get up steam; let off steam; put on
steam)
steel 
(man of steel)
step 
(make the first step; one step
ahead; one step further; step by step;
step for step; two-step)
stew 
(leave someone stew; leave some-
one stew in one’s own juice; let
someone stew; let someone stew in
one’s own juice)
stick 
(be stuck for something; be stuck
on someone; be stuck on something;
be stuck up; be stuck with someone;
big stick; big sticks; get stuck; get
stuck for something; get stuck in; get
stuck in something; get stuck into
something; get stuck on something;
get stuck with something; give it
some stick; give someone stick; high
up the stick; more than one can
shake a stick at; take a stick to some-
one; up the stick)
stitch 
(be in stitches; not have a stitch
on)
stock 
(have something in stock; in
stock; in the stocks; on the stocks;
take stock in something; take stock
of something)
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Key Word Index

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stomach 
(have no stomach for some-
thing)
stone 
(cast the first stone; cold as
stone; lay the first stone; rolling
stone; set a stone rolling; set the
stone rolling)
stop 
(come to a full stop; come to a
stop; full stop; pull the stops out)
store 
(computer hardware store; hard-
ware store; have something in store;
software store)
story 
(fish story; fishy story; hair-rais-
ing story; hairy story; hard-luck
story; it’s the same old, old story;
long story; one’s life story; short
story; tall story; tell me the old, old
story; that’s my story and i’m stick-
ing to it; that’s the story of my life)