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

GI bride • GI Jane
GI bride —(UK sl.) an English girl who is an American sol-
dier’s bride or wife: A group of GI brides was asking Tracy
for his autograph.
Note:
The expression is not equivalent in meaning to the phrase
war bride
— a woman who marries a man who is on active duty
in wartime: My mother was a war bride. She met my father,
an american soldier, in 
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GI Jane —(U.S. sl.) a servicewoman: And what about the
female officers? … The military must be brutalizing these GI
Janes.
gilded youth • golden boys
gilded youth —young men of fashion and wealth: He was
invited to dine with some of the gilded youth of the city at a
certain club.
golden boys —young people admired for their talent and skill:
He’s one of the company’s golden boys; sales have doubled
since he took over as marketing director.
gin house • gin palace
gin house —
1
. a building where cotton is pressed: There was
a large quantity of yellow unpicked cotton lying in the gin
house. 2. a bar retailing chiefly gin: Used to be some little
stores out there and I think a gin house … on the Avenue
Highway.
gin palace —(UK dated) a large bar furnished in a gaudy
style: I sat one evening in a gin palace among a set of pigeon
fanciers.
girdle of Venus • Venus’s girdle
girdle of Venus —(Palmistry) a line believed to denote sen-
sitive intellectual nature: Fussing over life-lines and measuring
the girdle of Venus seems a desperate and futile way to fill the
emptiness in many a woman’s life.
Venus’s girdle —a ribbonlike gelatinous sea creature found
in the Mediterranean Sea: In Cestum, or Venus’s Girdle, elon-
gation takes place to an extraordinary extent.