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

Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
phrase make a home—
1
. establish or run a home: He asked her
how big her roll was, saying that it cost something to make a
home. 2. (also: make one’s home) settle in a place (with one’s
family): She has made a home in the Bay Area, where she now
teaches Italian cooking and language.
do a job • do the job
do a job —(Underworld) commit a robbery or a burglary:
The two were engaged “doing a job” at a lonely place when
two mounted patrols came upon them.
do the job —(also: do the business) accomplish one’s purpose;
achieve the desired result: I don’t care what you use, as long
as it does the job.
do a job on someone • do the job for someone
do a job on someone —(sl.) 
1
. treat smb. roughly; injure or
harm a person: There’s no need to do a job on me, man, I’ll
tell you everything I know. 2. (also: do a snow job on someone)
take advantage of a person, especially by persuasion or decep-
tion: My local friendly plumber did a job on me cleaning out
my drain.
do the job for someone—(also: do the business for someone) ac-
complish one’s purpose; achieve the desired result: When he
couldn’t get whiskey he would drink lemon or vanilla extract.
It was mostly alcohol, so it did the job for him.
do a moonlight • moonlight
do a moonlight—(coll.) secretly move from a flat (under the
cover of night) usually to avoid paying the rent: The tenant
had done a “moonlight” with no warning even though the
lease still had many months to run.
moonlight—(coll.) work (often illegally) at a second job in
addition to one’s main job: Sasquatch is a tractor-trailer driver
by day — by night, he moonlights as a musically inclined cigar
distributor.