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

weather 
(below the weather; under the
weather)
wedding 
(white wedding)
weekend 
(like a wet weekend)
weight 
(carry one’s weight; carry
weight; dead weight; flying weight;
give full weight to something; give
weight to something; lay a weight on
something; lay weight on something;
live weight; make up the weight;
make weight; put on weight; put the
weight; throw one’s weight; throw
one’s weight about)
welcome 
(be welcome; be welcomed)
well 
(as well as; be well away; be well
off; do someone well; do well; do
well by someone; do well for oneself;
do well in something; do well out of
something; fare well; feel well; look
well; speak well for something; speak
well of something; stay well)
west 
(go west; middle west)
wet 
(be all wet; be wet)
what 
(or what)
whatever 
(or whatever)
wheel 
(fifth wheel; fly on the wheel;
grease the wheels; keep the wheels
turning; reinvent the wheel; set the
wheels in motion; spin the wheels;
squeaky wheel gets the grease, the;
third wheel)
while 
(all the while; worth while)
whistle 
(clean as a whistle)
white 
(admiral of the white; black and
white; in the white; in white; whiter
than white)
whole 
(go the whole gamut; in the
whole; on the whole)
wide 
(far and wide)
wild 
(call of the wild; go wild; in the
wild; in the wilds; life in the wild;
run wild)
wilderness 
(life in the wilderness)
willie 
(holy willie)
wind 
(bag of wind; be in the wind;
beat the wind; between wind and
water; break the wind; break wind;
get one’s wind; get the wind of
something; get the wind up; get
wind; get wind of something; hang
in the wind; know which way the
wind blows; out of the wind; out of
wind; raise the wind; straws in the
wind; take wind; throw straws
against the wind; whistle against the
wind; whistle down the wind; whis-
tle up the wind)