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

measurement 
(vital measurements)
meat 
(minced meat; sweet and sour
meat; sweet meat)
medication 
(go on medication)
medicine 
(take one’s medicine; take
one’s own medicine)
mend 
(be on the mend)
mention 
(don’t mention it; don’t men-
tion the war)
mercy 
(left at the mercy of someone;
left to the tender mercies of some-
one)
metal 
(king of metals; queen’s metal)
mickey 
(take the mickey out of some-
one)
middle 
(man in the middle)
midland 
(west midlands)
milk 
(cow in milk; in milk; in the
milk; land of milk and honey, the;
mouse milk; pigeon milk)
million 
(blue million; cool million)
mind 
(absence of mind; be at the back
of one’s mind; be in two minds; be
of one mind; be whole of mind;
blow someone’s mind; bring one’s
mind to something; bring something
to mind; cast one’s mind back to
something; come to mind; have a
good mind; have a mind; have a
mind of one’s own; have a mind to
do something; have half a mind;
have one’s mind on something; have
something in mind; have something
on one’s mind; in one’s mind; in
one’s right mind; in the right mind;
keep an open mind; keep one’s mind
on something; keep something in
mind; know one’s own mind; lose
one’s mind; never mind; never you
mind; off one’s mind; on one’s mind;
one’s mind is set; one’s mind wan-
ders; open one’s mind; out of mind;
out of one’s mind; presence of mind;
prey on someone’s mind; put one’s
mind to something; set one’s mind
on something; set one’s mind to
something; set someone in mind of
something; turn one’s mind to some-
thing; whole of mind and body)