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

tow 
(in tow; on tow)
town 
(get out of town; go out on the
town; go to town; man about town;
man of the town; open town; paint
the town red; wide-open town;
woman about town; woman of the
town)
toy 
(boy toy; boy’s toy)
trace 
(jump the traces)
track 
(back on track; fast track; in the
track of someone; jump the track;
keep someone on track; keep track of
someone; off the beaten track; off the
track; on the track of someone; on
the wrong track)
trade 
(in the trade; in trade; jack of all
trades)
trail 
(at the trail; on the trail)
train 
(boat-train; ghost train ; liner
train)
tree 
(out of one’s tree; shake someone’s
tree; shake the pagoda tree; shake the
plum tree; umbrella tree; up a tree)
trial 
(at the trial; hold a trial; in trial;
on trial; put someone on trial; take
someone on trial)
trick 
(do the trick; know a trick or
two; know all the tricks of the trade;
make the trick; pull off a hat-trick;
turn a trick; turn the trick)
trip 
(free trip)
trot 
(at a trot; on the trot; on the trots)
trouble 
(be in trouble; be in trouble
with someone; get someone into
trouble; give someone trouble; have
trouble; have trouble to do some-
thing; have trouble over something;
have trouble with someone; put
someone to trouble; take the trouble
to do something; take trouble over
something)
truck 
(fall off a truck; fall off the
turnip truck)
true 
(it is not true; out of true)
truly 
(yours truly)
trumpet 
(blow one’s own trumpet; yel-
low trumpet)
trust 
(in trust; on trust)