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

candy 
(be eye candy)
canoe 
(paddle one’s own canoe)
cap 
(black cap; red cap; white cap)
capital 
(make capital out of something;
risk capital)
car 
(breakdown car; broken-down car;
dining car; electric car; electric
motor car; motor car; park one’s car;
patrol car; rail car; railroad car;
street legal car; touring car; tourist
car)
card 
(cool card; cooling card; credit
card; mark one’s cards; mark some-
one’s cards; money card; off the
cards; out of the cards; payment
card; show one’s cards)
care 
(take care of someone; take care of
something; take care to do some-
thing; take someone into care; take
someone into one’s care)
carpet 
(be on the carpet; call someone
on the carpet; come on the carpet;
pull the carpet from under someone;
roll out the red carpet for someone;
step off the carpet)
cart 
(in the cart)
case 
(be a case in point; be the case;
closed case; in case of something; in
the case of something; it’s a case;
make a case for something; make a
federal case out of something; make
it a federal case; make out a case for
something; on someone’s case; on
the case; open-and-shut case; this is
not the case)
cash 
(cold cash; hard cash; lay cash on
the barrelhead; lay cash on the line;
petty cash; put cash on the barrel-
head; put cash on the line; small
cash)
cat 
(be under the cat’s paw; between
you and me and the cat’s whiskers;
cat’s whisker; cat’s whiskers; cat’s
paw copy-cat; dead-cat bounce;
enough to make a cat laugh; enough
to make a cat speak; has your cat
died; let the cat out of the bag; like a
cat on hot bricks; like a scalded cat;
like a singed cat; make a cat’s paw of
someone; put the cat among the
pigeons; see how the cat jumps; set
the cat among the pigeons; shoot the
cat; skin a cat; skin the cat; that cat
won’t jump; weak as a cat; whip
one’s weight in wild cats; whip the
cat)