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

verge 
(be on the verge of something)
version 
(revised standard version, the;
revised version, the)
view 
(at the view of someone; at the
view of something; in the view of
someone; in view of something; on
the view; on view; on view of some-
thing; take a dim view of something;
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Key Word Index

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take a long view; with the view of
something)
virtue 
(by virtue of something; in
virtue of something)
vision 
(color vision; colored vision)
voice 
(be in voice; find one’s voice;
have a voice; have voice; lose one’s
voice)
volume 
(speak volumes for something)
voter 
(swing voter)
vow 
(make a vow; make one’s vows)
vulture 
(eagle vulture)
wagon 
(dinner wagon; fall off the
wagon; go on the wagon; on the
wagon; patrol wagon)
wait 
(be in waiting; just you wait; lie
in wait)
walk 
(at a walk; go at a walk; go for a
walk; in a walk)
walker 
(floor-walker)
wall 
(be put up against the wall; be up
against the wall; climb up the wall;
come up against a blank wall; come
up against a brick wall; drive some-
one to the wall; drive someone up
the wall; fly on the wall; go over the
wall; hit the wall running; jump over
the wall; off the wall; over the wall;
run into a stone wall; run one’s head
into a brick wall; run one’s head into
a stone wall; stone wall; writing on
the wall)
want
(be in want; be wanting)
war 
(be in a war; be in the wars; go to
the war; go to war; honors of war)
ward 
(casual ward; casualty ward)