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

copy boy • copy man
copy boy —a newspaper employee who runs errands and car-
ries copy to and from the various departments: Ronnie, a
young, eager copy-boy, bustled in with a handful of news
slips.
copy man —a copywriter; a person who makes copies: Find
A3 papers and copy the whole thing at the copy-service (don’t
forget the bottle of whisky for the copy-man).
Note: 
Neither expression correlates in meaning with the com-
pound copy-cat—a person who copies the words or behavior of
another: She realizes that this killer is a copycat who is mod-
eling all his killings after famous killers of the past.
cork something down • cork something up
cork something down—
1
. fasten smth. tightly with a cork:
That medicine ought to be corked down closely after use. 2.
(of feelings, reactions, etc.) suppress: He fought his anger at
them, corked it down deep within him, and maintained a
calm expression.
cork something up—
1
. = cork something down 
1
: It’s dangerous
to cork up these bottles while the wine is still fermenting, you
know. 2. = cork something down 2: It’s very bad for you to cork
your emotions up like that: you’d feel much better if you could
“let yourself go.”
Corncracker State, the • Cracker State, the
Corncracker State, the —(U.S.) a nickname of the state of
Kentucky: The father was a farmer who came into the Corn-
cracker state from Pennsylvania, where he was born.
Cracker State, the —(U.S.) a nickname of the state of Geor-
gia: The two hundred slaves of the family followed Colmesnil,
who spent the remainder of his life in the Cracker state.
corpse-man • corpsman
corpse-man —a dead man; a zombie: Davy Jones … is really
mesmerizing evil with his infamous ship, the Flying Dutch-
man, and his soulless crew of corpse men.
corpsman —(U.S. Army) an enlisted person with training in
giving first aid: The cry “corpsman up!” rings across a bat-
tlefield, sending a crouching figure with a medical bag dash-
ing…