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- Babe in the woods
- Bachelor’s or bachelors degree and master’s or masters degree
- Back in the day
- Back seat vs. backseat
- Back the wrong horse and bet on the wrong horse
- Back to square one
- Back to the drawing board
- Back up vs. backup
- Backhanded compliment and left-handed compliment
- Backseat driver
- Backstab
- Backward vs backwards
- Backwater or backwaters
- Backyard, back yard, back-yard
- Bad apple
- Bad penny
- Bad rap vs. bad wrap
- Bad vs badly
- Bae vs bay
- Bail vs. bale
- Bailiwick
- Bailout, bail out, and bail-out
- Bain-marie vs double boiler
- Bait vs. bate
- Bald-faced vs. boldface
- Balderdash
- Ball vs bawl
- Balmy vs. barmy
- Baloney vs. bologna
- Bamboozle
- Ban vs. bar
- Band (together) vs. bandy (about)
- Band vs banned
- Bane
- Bank on it and take it to the bank
- Bankster
- Baptise vs. baptize
- Baptism by fire and baptism of fire
- Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah
- Barbecue vs. barbeque
- Barbed wire
- Bard
- Bard vs barred
- Bare bones
- Bare vs. bear
- Bark is worse than one’s bite
- Bark vs barque
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Barn burner
- Barnstorm
- Baron vs barren
- Basal, basil, or Basel
- Base vs bass
- Based vs baste
- Basis (on a daily basis, on a regular basis, etc.)
- Basis vs bases
- Basket case
- Bass vs bass
- Bastion
- Bath or bathe
- Bathos vs pathos
- Baton vs batten
- Batten Down the Hatches – Meaning and Origin
- Batting cleanup
- Battle royal
- Bawdy vs body
- Bawl out
- Bazaar vs. bizarre
- Be my guest
- Be patient or have patience
- Beach vs beech
- Beachcomber
- Bean counter
- Bear market, bull market, bearish, bullish
- Beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse
- Beat around the bush
- Beat or beaten
- Beat someone to the punch
- Beat swords into plowshares and beat swords into ploughshares
- Beat vs beet
- Beau vs bow
- Bechdel test and Bechdel-Wallace test
- Beck and call vs beckon call
- Beckon call
- Bed of roses
- Beeline
- Been around the block
- Been there, done that
- Beer vs bier
- Beg off
- Beg the question (usage)
- Began vs begun
- Beggar Belief – Meaning and Origin
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Begging the Question Fallacy – Meaning and Examples
- Begrudge
- Behalf
- Behavior vs. behaviour
- Behest vs bequest
- Behind The Eight Ball – Meaning And Origin
- Behold and beholden
- Behoove
- Belated
- Belay vs belie
- Belie
- Bell the cat
- Bell vs belle
- Belle vs beau
- Bellwether
- Bellyache
- Below the belt and hit below the belt
- Benchmark
- Benefactor vs patron
- Benefit of the doubt
- Benefiting vs. Benefitting
- Bent or bended
- Bereaved vs. bereft
- Berry vs bury
- Berserk
- Berth vs birth
- Beside or besides
- Besotted
- Bespeak vs bespoke
- Bespeckled or bespectacled
- Best of both worlds
- Best-laid plans
- Better late than never
- Better safe than sorry
- Better vs bettor
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Betwixt
- Beyond the pale
- Bezel vs embezzle
- Biannual vs. biennial
- Biannual, biennial and semiannual
- Biceps and triceps
- Bid, bade, bidden
- Big fish in a small pond
- Big kahuna
- Big league and bush league
- Big shot
- Big-ups
- Bight vs. bite
- Bigwig
- Bill and coo
- Bill of goods
- Billed vs build
- Bimonthly and semimonthly
- Binge-watch
- Bingeing or binging
- Bingo
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Bisect vs dissect
- Bit vs. bitten
- Bite off more than one can chew
- Bite one’s tongue
- Bite the bullet
- Bite, byte or bight
- Bite-size or bite-sized
- Bitter pill to swallow and hard pill to swallow
- Bivouac
- Biweekly vs semiweekly
- Black market
- Black out vs blackout
- Black sheep
- Blackball
- Blackmail vs extortion
- Blah blah blah
- Blandish vs brandish
- Blatant vs. flagrant
- Blather vs blabber
- Blather vs. blither
- Blaze a trail
- Blench vs blanch
- Blessed vs. blest
- Blessing in disguise
- Blew, blown, or blowed
- Bling
- Blitzkrieg
- Bloc vs. block
- Blockbuster
- Blond vs. blonde
- Blooper
- Bloviate
- Blow a fuse and blow a gasket
- Blow hot and cold
- Blow off steam and let off steam
- Blow someone’s cover
- Blow the whistle and whistle-blower
- Blow your own trumpet and toot your own horn
- Blow-by-blow account
- Blowhard and windbag
- Blowing up one’s phone
- Blowout vs. blow out
- Blowup vs. blow up
- Blue blood
- Blue collar, white collar
- Bluetooth
- Board vs bored
- Bob’s Your Uncle Meaning and Origin
- Bobble vs bauble
- Bobbsey twins
- Bode vs bowed
- Bodega
- Body politic
- Bogeyman
- Boggle the mind and mind-boggling
- Bohemian
- Bokeh
- Bold as brass
- Bolder vs boulder
- Boldface text
- Bollocks vs bollocking
- Bombogenesis
- Bon vivant
- Bona fide, bona fides
- Bone of contention
- Bone to pick
- Bone vs debone
- Bonhomie
- Booby hatch
- Boondocks vs boonies
- Boondoggle
- Boot camp
- Boots on the ground
- Booze vs boos
- Border vs boarder
- Bore, boor, boar
- Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth
- Borne vs. born
- Borough, burro, burrow
- Bot vs bought
- Botanic vs. botanical
- Bottom line
- Bough or bow
- Bought the farm and gone for a Burton
- Boughten
- Bound vs. bounded
- Bounteous vs bountiful
- Bourgeois, bourgeoisie
- Bow vs bow
- Bowdlerize
- Bowl over
- Bowl vs boll
- Bowl vs bowel
- Bowled vs bold
- Boy vs buoy
- Brackets vs. Parentheses
- Braggadocio
- Braggart vs bragger
- Braid vs brayed
- Brain trust vs think tank
- Brainchild
- Brainwash
- Braise, brays, or braze
- Brake vs break
- Brand spanking new
- Bravado
- Breach, breech, broach
- Bread and butter
- Bread vs bred
- Breadcrumbs, breadcrumb trail and trail of breadcrumbs
- Break the bank
- Break up vs. breakup
- Breastfeeding, breastfed, breastfeed, etc.
- Breath vs. breadth (vs. width)
- Breath vs. breathe
- Breeches vs britches
- Brewed vs brood
- Brews vs bruise
- Brexit and Grexit
- Bric-a-brac and knick-knack
- Bridezilla
- Bridle vs. bridal
- Brief vs debrief
- Bright vs. brite
- Bring home the bacon
- Bring one’s A-game
- Bring the house down and bring down the house
- Bring vs take
- Briton
- Briton vs Britain
- Broach vs. brooch
- Bromance
- Bronx cheer and blow a raspberry
- Brouhaha
- Brown-nose and brownnose
- Brownie points
- Browse vs brows
- Brung, brang
- Brussels sprout
- Buck naked, butt naked
- Bucket list
- Buckle up vs buck up
- Buffer vs. buffet
- Buffet vs buffet
- Bugbear or bugaboo
- Build up vs. buildup
- Building castles in the air
- Bulk, balk, baulk
- Bullion vs boullion
- Bullseye or bull’s eye
- Bully pulpit
- Bum steer
- Bum-rush vs bum’s rush
- Bumper crop
- Bumpkin
- Bun in the oven
- Bundle of joy
- Bunk vs debunk
- Bunk, bunkum, buncombe
- Bunny vs Bunnie
- Bunt vs Bundt
- Bupkis
- Burger vs burgher
- Burgle vs. burglarize
- Burn one’s bridges and burn one’s boats
- Burn the candle at both ends
- Burned vs. burnt
- Burning the midnight oil
- Burnish vs tarnish
- Burnout vs. burn out
- Burrow vs borrow
- Burst one’s bubble and pop one’s bubble
- Bursted
- Burthen
- Bury one’s head in the sand
- Bury the hatchet
- Bus stop vs. busstop
- Bused, bussed, or bust
- Buses vs. busses
- Bust one’s chops and lick one’s chops
- Busybody
- But vs butt
- But vs. yet
- Butt heads and bump heads
- Butt of a joke
- Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth
- Butterfingers
- Butterflies in one’s stomach
- Butterfly effect
- Buy a lemon
- Buy, by or bye
- Buzzword
- By and by vs. by the by
- By dint of
- By hook or by crook
- By the same token
- By the skin of one’s teeth
- By the way and BTW
- Byproduct
- Bête noire
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- A big ask
- Annual, perennial or biennial
- Autobiography vs biography
- Car hood and car bonnet
- Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
- Dingo’s breakfast
- Dirigible or blimp
- Double down vs buckle down
- Due to vs because of
- Fire and brimstone
- Fringe benefit
- Have a bee in one’s bonnet
- Have someone buffaloed
- Hobo, tramp, bum, or gutter punk
- Honor among thieves and no honor among thieves
- Kerfuffle vs brouhaha
- Knighted vs benighted
- Knuckle down and buckle down
- Magic bullet and silver bullet
- May be or maybe
- More bang for one’s buck and bigger bang for one’s buck
- On accident vs by accident
- On the radar, off the radar, under the radar, below the radar, and above the radar
- Once in a blue moon
- Other fish to fry and bigger fish to fry
- Poor-mouth vs bad-mouth
- Pram, baby carriage and baby buggy
- Shopping cart or buggy
- Since vs because
- The be-all and end-all
- The big picture
- The birds and the bees
- To the bitter end
- Wink vs blink
