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

catch 
(get caught doing something; get
caught up on something)
ceiling 
(glass ceiling; go through the
ceiling; stained-glass ceiling)
cent 
(per cent; per cents; put one’s two
cents in; red cent)
center 
(community center; remand
center)
certificate 
(general certificate of educa-
tion; general certificate of secondary
education
chair 
(get the chair; put someone into
the chair; send someone to the chair;
take a chair; take the chair)
chalk 
(walk one’s chalks; walk the
chalk)
challenge 
(bring something into chal-
lenge; lay challenge to something)
chamber
(death chamber; gun cham-
ber)
chamberlain 
(lord chamberlain; lord
great chamberlain)
chance 
(by any chance; by chance;
have a fat chance; have a slim
chance; on the chance; on the off
chance)
change 
(give someone short change;
give someone small change; go
through changes; go through the
changes; short change; small change)
chapel 
(father of the chapel)
character 
(be quite the character)
charge 
(in charge; in charge of some-
one; in charge of something; in the
charge of someone; on charge; on
charge of something; put someone in
charge; put someone on a charge;
take charge of someone; take some-
one in charge)
charity 
(live in charity; live on charity)
charles 
(king charles)
charlie 
(right charlie)
chart 
(go off the chart)
check 
(blank check; cross a check)
cheese (chew the cheese; say cheese)
cherry 
(red as cherries)
chest 
(get something off one’s chest)