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

counter 
(bargain counter; bargaining
counter)
country 
(black country, the; go to the
country; god’s country; gulf country;
house in the country; live in the
country; live on the country)
course 
(collision course; crash course)
court 
(ball is in someone’s court, the;
friend at court; friend of the court;
hold court)
cover 
(get someone covered; letter
under cover; provide cover against
something; provide cover from
something; under cover)
cow 
(holy cow; milch cow; sacred cow;
till the cows come home)
crack 
(fall through the cracks)
craft 
(water craft)
credence 
(give credence to something)
credibility 
(lend credibility to some-
thing)
credit 
(do someone credit; gain credit;
get credit; give someone credit; in
credit; on credit)
creek 
(put someone up the creek; up
the creek)
crest 
(golden crest)
criterion 
(specific criteria; specified cri-
teria)
crop 
(neck and crop)
cross 
(dot one’s i’s and cross one’s t’s;
george cross, the; not cross one’s
bridges before one comes to them;
red cross, the; red cross; saint
george’s cross, the)
cross-roads 
(be at the cross-roads)
crow 
(eat crow; have a crow to pluck;
if you fly with the crows, you get
shot with the crows; jim crow some-
one; jump jim crow; shoot the crow;
stone the crows)
crowd 
(follow the crowd; join the
crowd)
crown 
(to crown it all)
crystal 
(clear as crystal)
cud 
(chew the cud)
cudgel 
(take up the cudgel)
cuff 
(off the cuff; on the cuff )