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

project 
(science project; scientific proj-
ect)
promise 
(give a promise; give promise)
property 
(common property; commu-
nity property; man of property)
proportion 
(in proportion of some-
thing; in proportion to something)
proposal 
(make a proposal)
proposition 
(make a proposition)
proud 
(do someone proud; make
someone proud)
province 
(not in one’s province)
psalm 
(book of psalms, the)
public 
(in public)
pull 
(have a pull with someone; have
the pull of someone)
pulse 
(feel something on the pulse; feel
the pulse of something)
punch 
(beat someone to the punch)
purpose 
(on purpose; to some purpose;
to the purpose)
purse 
(hold the purse strings)
push 
(at a push; at one push; give
someone a push; give someone the
push)
pussy 
(feed one’s pussy)
put 
(be put up against the wall)
quarrel 
(have no quarrel with some-
one; not quarrel with someone)
quarter 
(bad quarter of an hour; fifth
quarter; good quarter of an hour)
queer 
(on the queer)
question 
(ask the question; beg the
question; beside the question; be -
yond question; bring something into
question; call someone into question;
call something into question; call the
question; come into question; go
into the question; in question; it is
not a question of something; money
is no question; no question; no ques-
tions asked; not the question; open
question; open to question; open-
end question; out of the question;
put a question to someone; put
someone to the question; put some-
thing in question; put something to
the question; put the question; there
is no question of something)