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

sale price • selling price
sale price —
1
. the price a customer pays for a product: I have
learned the lowest sale price of many items we purchase reg-
ularly and wait until it is at or below that price. 2. low price
at a sale: This Lindermans wine I bought at a sale price of
£3.99 at my local Safeway — normal price was about £6 as I
remember.
selling price — = sale price 
1
: We keep the selling price of our
items as low as possible but need to include a little extra in
the postage price.
Sally Ann • San Fairy Ann
Sally Ann —(sl.) the Salvation Army (a charitable and reli-
gious organization to care for the poor and homeless): The Sal-
vation Army? You’d never get me sleeping there…. Everyone
knows you pick all sorts of things up from the Sally Ann.
San Fairy Ann —(a jocular representation of the French phrase
“ça ne fait rien”) it doesn’t matter; it makes no difference (UK
Army WWI): If anyone has a problem with that — which I
doubt — then san fairy ann as we say.
same again • same as ever
same again —used when ordering another drink of the same
kind as the last: A thump on the counter brought the bar-
maid…. “Same again, ladies?”
same as ever —said of a person or thing not changed over a
period of time: I have been perfectly charmed and overjoyed
today, to find you just the same as ever.
San Jose • San José
San Jose —a city in California located at the southern end
of San Francisco Bay: A friend who lives in San Jose came to
the hotel one night and took us to dinner.
San José—the capital of the nation of Costa Rica: Many for-
eigners living in Costa Rica, especially the beach areas, must
come to San José to do general shopping.
sandwich girl • sandwich man
sandwich girl —(sl.) a super-skinny girl who looks like she
hasn’t eaten in weeks: Joe talks about how he’s all about body
acceptance and real women, but all he ever dates is sandwich
girls.
sandwich man —a man carrying two placards fastened to -
gether with straps supported on his shoulders: Not a picket
was to be seen, not even a sandwich man stood there, express-
ing his lonely indignation.