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

breeze 
(hit the breeze; in a breeze)
brick 
(come down on someone like a
ton of bricks; drop a brick; hit
someone like a ton of bricks)
bride 
(gi bride; war bride)
bridge 
(build bridges with someone;
burn bridges with someone)
britain 
(great britain; greater britain;
little britain)
british 
(best of british luck, the; cicero
of the british senate, the)
broad 
(speak broad)
broadly 
(speak broadly
broadway 
(off-broadway; off-off
broadway)
broke 
(go broke; go for broke)
brow 
(high-brow; low-brow)
brush 
(painted with the tar brush;
tarred with the same brush; touched
with the tar brush)
bucket 
(rust bucket)
bug 
(bitten by the same bug; put a bug
in someone’s ear)
bulb 
(bright as a two-watt bulb)
bull 
(charge like a bull at a gate; charge
like a wounded bull; hit the bull’s
eye; like a bull at a gate; like a bull
in a china shop; shoot the bull;
strike the bull’s eye; take the bull by
the horns)
bullet 
(plastic bullet)
bump 
(get a bump; make a bump)
bun 
(get your buns over here)
bundle 
(drop a bundle; drop one’s
bundle)
buoy
(bell buoy)
burn 
(heart-burning)
bus 
(boys on the bus, the; man on the
bus, the)
bush 
(beat about the bush; beat the
bush; rough it in the bush)
business 
(be nobody’s business; be
none of someone’s business; do busi-
ness; do one’s business; do the busi-
ness; go about one’s business; go into
business; go to business; good busi-
ness; have no business to do some-
thing; like nobody’s business; make a
business of something; make it one’s
business; man of business; pretty
business; send someone about his
business; send someone on business)