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

New World, the • new world
New World, the —North and South America: The bird
which we call turkey was one of our best acclimatizations after
the discovery of the New World.
new world —new setting of existence with its customs, tra-
ditions, etc.: She left her rich, safe, home and came to a new
world in the city.
neither fish nor fowl
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Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
phrase brave new world, the— a nightmarish utopian society,
especially one in which technological progress has negative results:
One only has to think of the brave new world as “propheti-
cally” described by Aldous Huxley: societies made up of wil-
fully-created, genetically-determined master/slave creatures.
news agency • newsagent
news agency —(also: press agency) an organization that pro-
vides news coverage to subscribers, such as newspapers, etc.:
The bulletin, which went out to more than four thousand
newspapers, came from the news agency’s San Francisco
bureau.
newsagent—a person who keeps a store or stall selling mainly
newspapers and magazines: Her father was a newsagent, so
she devoured comics and magazines as well as fiction.
night man • night person
night man —
1
. a man who does work during the night: A
company taxi is usually driven by both a day-man and a night-
man. 2. a man who does illegal things at night: The people
hated any type of investigator because so many of them were
“night men.” 3. smb. who prefers to be active in the nighttime:
Morris is a night man. He’d have a chapter from me morning
or afternoon and then work on his at night.
night person — = night man 3: I can’t function in the morn-
ing. I’m strictly a night person.