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

lip 
(bite one’s lip; give someone lip;
read my lips; read someone’s lips)
liquid 
(flammable liquid; inflammable
liquid)
liquor (drink hard liquor; hold one’s
liquor; red liquor)
list 
(laundry list; lloyd’s list; shopping
list)
listen 
(i am listening)
little 
(in a little; in little; no little; not
a little)
live 
(real live)
living 
(cost of living; make a living for
oneself )
load 
(be loaded; be loaded for bear;
carry a load; carry the load; get a
load of something; get a load on;
take a load off someone’s mind; work
load; working load)
look 
(catch a look; catch someone’s
look; give someone a black look; not
know where to look; take a long
look)
look-in 
(give someone a look-in)
look-out 
(be on the look-out for some-
thing)
loon 
(crazy as a loon)
loose 
(cut loose from something; cut
loose with something; in the loose;
on the loose; sit loose to something;
sit loose upon someone)
loser 
(bad loser; two-time loser)
loss 
(cut back one’s losses; cut one’s
losses; dead loss; total loss)
lot 
(quite a lot; say a lot about some-
thing; say a lot for something; whole
lot, a; whole lot, the)
loud 
(speak loud)
love 
(play for love)
low 
(be laid low; be low; bring some-
one low; down low; fly low; high
and low; lie low; play it low; play it
low down; play it low-key)
luck 
(be in luck; man of luck; one’s
luck is in; one’s luck is out; push
one’s luck; stroke of luck)
lunch 
(do lunch; have one’s lunch
handed to one; make lunch)