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

jet people • jet set
jet people —(also: plane people) asylum seekers, refugees, or
immigrants who relocate by airplane: They are immigrants of
choice, jet people rather than boat people. America’s been
good to them…
jet set—an international social set of wealthy people who
travel frequently by jetliner to parties and resorts: There is
one hotel frequented by the jet set…. However, it is more chic
to arrive by yacht and return to it each night.
Jim Crow someone • jump Jim Crow
Jim Crow someone —(U.S. dated sl.) practice racial discrim-
ination against Black people: The Government has opened
the door to dozens of prominent Blacks and ensured that they
were not Jim Crowed.
jump Jim Crow —(U.S. dated sl.) change one’s political con-
victions; desert one’s party: Not much balance about us. We
just run about and jump Jim Crow.
job-horse • work horse
job-horse —a horse hired to do a particular piece of work,
or for a limited time: The sight of Dr. Slocum’s large carriage,
with the gaunt job-horses, crushed Flora.
work horse —
1
. a horse used for labor rather than for racing
or recreation: Pink-eye is excessively prevalent among all
classes of horses, particularly work horses in Sheffield. 2. a
person who undertakes hard but necessary work: Rice-pro-
ducing peasants continued to be the workhorses of the nation
and the economic support of the ruling class. 3. a particularly
useful or durable machine: This caliber howitzer has gained
the reputation of being the “work horse” of the Army.
job of work • job work
job of work —(coll.) a task; a piece of work: Arthur did not
go on the search, because he had a job of work to do.
job work —printing of letterheads, cards, etc. as distinct
from the manufacture of books: This invention relates to
machinery intended chiefly for printing “job work.”