Here are some more phrases that sound almost right—but aren’t. Check to see if any belong to you:
- For all intensive purposes It’s for all intents and purposes.
- One in the same should be one and the same.
- Make due Nope. You need to make do. Make what you have do what you need.
- By in large is by and large.
- Do diligence is not something done. You want due diligence.
- Peak one’s interest This has nothing to do with height. It has to do with pique, sharpening your interest.
- Shoe in? This has nothing to do with footwear. It’s shoo in, the way you would shoo your cat inside at night.
- Extract revenge. Nothing is being removed. You are going to exact revenge.
- Doggy-dog world. You’re describing a highly competitive situation, which is a dog-eat-dog world.
- Supposably No such word. You want supposedly.