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

land someone in something • land someone with
something
land someone in something —(coll.) get a person into difficul-
ties or trouble: It is this decades-old addiction to spending
that has landed us in this rotten economic crisis.
land someone with something —(coll.) cause a person to
obtain or receive smth. (especially smth. unpleasant): As usual
with all sweep stakes I enter, lady luck has landed me with
the worst horse in the entire field.
landed immigrant • landed man
landed immigrant—an immigrant to Canada, admitted for
permanent residence: If he is to see his child, he will have to
be accepted as a landed immigrant.
landed man —a person possessed of land; smb. having an
estate in land: He has rather a big noise here. Landed man
really, but has a seat on our Board.
landlord • landowner
landlord —a man who rents out accommodation to tenants:
We are going back to Manhattan to clean out our old house
so we can turn it over to our landlord.
landowner —an owner or proprietor of land: Sandino was
the son of a poor native woman and a rich landowner, who
didn’t recognize him as his son.
Land’s End, the • land’s end
Land’s End, the —(UK) most southerly point in England, at
the tip of Cornwall: We were barely able to lay a course
through the passage between those islands and the Land’s
End.
land’s end —(also: end of the land) the remotest region of the
country: Here there is also a tradition of independence against
the rest of New England. It’s land’s end, so they tend to be
suspicious of the rest of the world.
large as life • larger than life
large as life —(also: big as life) said of smb. actually present,
especially where a person is not supposed to be: He couldn’t
have gone abroad — I saw him yesterday, coming out of his
office as large as life.
larger than life —said of smb. very much out of the ordinary
and likely to attract attention: Many film stars seem to be
larger than life to the mass of ordinary people.