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

interview someone for a job • interview with
someone for a job
interview someone for a job —(of an employer) discuss em -
ployment in a particular job with a prospective employee: The
TV station was looking for a producer and wanted to interview
her for the job.
interview with someone for a job —(of smb. seeking employ-
ment) discuss employment in a particular job with a prospec-
tive employer: She interviewed with the company for a job in
the business department.
involved in something • involved with something
involved in something —actively engaged in smth.; being a
party to smth.: Auto companies often did become involved
in projects having nothing to do with their principal activity.
involved with something —having to do with smth.; having
a close relationship with smth.: “Your company has a farm
products division.” “I’m not involved with it, and don’t expect
to be.”
iron horse • iron pony
iron horse —
1
. a locomotive steam engine : The engineer
returned to his iron horse and the train started. 2. a bicycle:
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iron horse

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It’s not the longest holiday trip on a bicycle, but it could look
like it when Andersen saddles his iron horse.
iron pony —a motorcycle: I get off and find that I have had
oil spewing down the side of my iron pony.
iron lady • iron maiden
iron lady —
1
. said of a tough or intransigent woman: She
was an iron lady who took part in the rallies even after her
head was injured twice in police baton charges. 2. (Iron Lady)
the nickname of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
(
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): The Iron Lady of British politics, Margaret
Thatcher was the longest continuously serving prime minister
since 
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827.
iron maiden —
1
. an old instrument of torture: A person was
placed inside the box of the iron maiden while the door (which
had impaling spikes on the inside) was closed slowly to max-
imize pain. 2. (Iron Maiden) = iron lady 2: Tension was exac-
erbated by the cold-war rhetoric which both President Reagan
and Mrs. Thatcher consciously adopted, the latter reveling in
the “Iron Maiden” label.