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

teacher 
(career teacher; careers teacher;
pupil teacher; student teacher)
telegraph 
(bush telegraph; field tele-
graph)
tell 
(don’t tell me; go tell it to the
birds; i’m telling you; never tell me;
tale that is told; you tell ’em; you tell
me; you’re telling me)
temper 
(get into a temper; get out of
temper; in a temper; in no temper;
out of temper)
ten 
(top ten; upper ten)
tenterhooks 
(on tenterhooks)
territory 
(cover the territory; north-
west territories; northwest territory)
test 
(driving test; put someone to the
acid test; screen test; screening test)
than 
(sooner…than)
thanks 
(no thanks to; offer one’s
thanks; thanks but no thanks to)
that 
(how’s that; how’s that for high)
theater 
(movie theater; moving theater;
operating theater; planetarium the-
ater)
them 
(pack them; pack them in)
then 
(now and then; now then)
there 
(be there for me; be there or be
square; here and there; here, there
and everywhere; such as there is; you
had to be there)
thick 
(as thick as peas in a pod)
thief 
(thick as thieves)
thin 
(spread oneself thin)
thing 
(close thing; closest thing, the;
do one’s thing; do that small thing;
do the other thing; for one thing;
have a thing about someone; have a
thing with someone; it’s just one of
those things; it’s just the thing;
know a thing or two; last thing, the;
latest thing, the; little thing; nearest
thing, the; not a thing; not quite the
thing; not the thing; one final thing;
quite the thing; small thing; soft
thing; soft things; taking one thing
with another; that’s the thing; very
near thing, a; what with one thing
and another)