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

straight 
(give it to someone straight; go
straight; keep straight)
stream 
(come on stream; go on stream;
go with the stream; swim with the
stream)
street 
(down someone’s street; go on
the streets; hit the streets; in queer
street; live in the street; man in the
street; men in the street; not in the
same street; on the street; on the
streets; one way street; take to the
streets; up another street; up some-
one’s street; woman in the street)
strength 
(at full strength; in full
strength; in strength; with all one’s
strength)
stretch 
(at a stretch; on the stretch)
stride 
(get into one’s stride; take some-
thing in one’s stride)
strike 
(lucky strike)
string 
(have someone on a string; lead
someone in a string; on a string; pull
the string of the shower-bath; pull
the strings)
stripe 
(candy stripe)
stroke 
(at a stroke; at the stroke; off
one’s stroke; on the stroke)
strong 
(come on strong; feel strong; go
it strong; go strong)
strongly 
(feel strongly)
student 
(graduate student; post-gradu-
ate student)
stuff 
(green stuff; hot stuff )
stump 
(dumb as a stump; on the
stump; up a stump)
succession 
(by succession; in succes-
sion)
such 
(as such; such and such)
sugar 
(neither sugar nor salt)
suggestion 
(practicable suggestion;
practical suggestion)
suit 
(monkey suit)
summer 
(high summer)
sun 
(in the sun; under the sun)
sunday 
(mothering sunday; palm sun-
day; sad palm sunday)
support 
(for the support of someone;
in support of someone)