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

mixed up in something • mixed up with
 something
mixed up in something —(of people) involved in or linked
with smth., especially smth. reprehensible: Robert Mendelson,
whose name was also mixed up in the scandal, has not been
mentioned in the ruling.
mixed up with something —
1
. blended or interspersed with
smth.: Its composition varies according to the various ingre-
dients which may be mixed up with it. 2. combined or asso-
ciated with smth.: There is no reason why every adventure
story should necessarily be mixed up with snobbishness and
gutter patriotism. 3. = mixed up in something: No political
party makes the slightest reference to it, all parties apparently
being too much mixed up with the scandal. 4. confused with
smth.; mistakenly identified with smth.: His hospital chart
was mixed up with that of another patient with a similar name.
mobile home • motor home
mobile home —
1
. a factory-built housing unit that can be
installed on a permanent (rented) site and used as a residence:
A park owner may not prohibit home owners from installing
electric or gas appliances in their mobile home. 2. (also: touring
caravan) a non-motorized caravan with living facilities that
can be towed by a vehicle and used as a residence: Forty-five
miles per hour shall be the maximum speed at which a person
shall be permitted to drive a vehicle which is towing a mobile
home.
motor home—(also: motor caravan) a motor vehicle designed
to serve as self-contained living quarters for recreational travel:
The number of visitors to our state choosing to travel by motor
home is ever increasing.
Modern English • New English
Modern English —English as it has been since about 
1
500:
According to the nomenclature now generally adopted, the
Old English period ends about 
11
00–
11
50, the Middle English
period about 
1
500, when the period of Modern English begins.
New English —
1
. the contemporary English language: Mar-
riageable men, or what the new English calls “intending bride-
grooms” should look at themselves dispassionately in the glass.
2. (attrib.) pertaining to New England (a part of the United
States comprising six north-eastern States): Early New English
houses were compact, with cooking taking place in one of the
principal public rooms.