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P
- Packed vs. Pact
- Packs vs pax
- Paddy wagon
- Paean, paeon, peon
- Pail vs. Pale
- Pain vs. Pane
- Paint the town red and paint the town
- Pair vs. pare vs. pear
- Pajamas vs. pyjamas
- Palate, palette, pallet
- Pale in comparison
- Palindrome (poetry)
- Pall vs. pallor
- Palpable vs palatable
- Pan Out – Origin & Meaning
- Pander vs ponder
- Panhandle
- Paper Tiger – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Paper-thin
- Par Excellence – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Par for the course
- Parade float
- Paralympics
- Paralyse vs. paralyze
- Parameter vs perimeter
- Paramount vs. tantamount
- Paraphernalia
- Pardon my French and excuse my French
- Parentheses (Round Bracket) Use With Examples
- Pariah vs piranha
- Parish vs perish
- Parlay vs. parley
- Parlor or parlour
- Parody vs parity
- Parol vs. Parole
- Parricide vs. patricide
- Parsimony
- Part and parcel
- Participial prepositions
- Parting shot
- Pass muster
- Pass muster vs pass mustard
- Pass the torch and hand on the torch
- Pass with flying colors
- Passable or passible
- Passed vs. past
- Passerbys or passersby
- Passing strange
- Past master
- Paste vs. Paced
- Pasteurize vs pasteurise
- Pastime vs past time
- Pasty vs pasty
- Path of least resistance and line of least resistance.
- Pathetic vs apathetic
- Patience vs. Patients – Usage, Meaning & Spelling
- Patient zero
- Patois
- Patriotism vs nationalism
- Patron vs. Benefactor – Difference & Definition
- Patsy
- Patty vs paddy
- Paucity – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Pause vs paws
- Pay It Forward – Meaning, Synonyms & Examples
- Pay Lip Service – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Pay one’s dues
- Pay one’s respects
- Pay the Piper – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Pay through the nose
- Payback vs. pay back
- Payed vs. Paid – Definition, Difference & Examples
- Pea vs pee
- Peace of mind, piece of (one’s) mind
- Peaceable vs. peaceful
- Peak vs. peek vs. pique
- Peal vs. peel
- Pearls of wisdom
- Peccadillo
- Pecking Order – Origin & Meaning
- Pedal vs. peddle vs. petal
- Pediatric or paediatric
- Pediment vs impediment
- Peeping Tom
- Pejorative
- Pell-mell
- Penal vs. penile
- Penance vs pittance
- Penchant vs pension
- Pendant vs. Pendent – Meaning & Difference
- Penny for your thoughts
- Penny wise and pound foolish
- Pentagon
- Pentimento vs pimento or pimiento
- Penultimate
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Peplum vs pablum
- Per diem
- Per Se or Per Say – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Per vs. Purr
- Percent vs. per cent
- Peremptory vs pre-emptory
- Perfect Storm – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Perfunctory vs peremptory
- Period Punctuation Rules and Examples
- Periodic vs. Periodical – Origin, Usage and Examples
- Peripatetic
- Perjury
- Perk vs perq
- Permit vs permit
- Pernickety vs. persnickety
- Perpetrate vs perpetuate
- Perquisite vs. prerequisite (vs. requisite)
- Persecute vs. prosecute
- Persona non grata
- Personal vs personable
- Personal vs personnel
- Personality vs personage vs persona
- Personification vs anthropomorphism
- Persons vs. People – Proper Usage & Examples
- Perspective vs. prospective
- Persuade vs dissuade
- Peruse
- Pervert vs subvert
- Pet vs. petted
- Petroglyph vs pictograph
- Pettifogger
- Petulant vs impetuous
- Pharaoh or Pharoah
- Phial vs. vial (vs. vile)
- Philly vs. Filly
- Phishing
- Phoning It In or Phone It In – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Phony vs. phoney
- Phosphate vs. Phosphorus vs. Phosphorous
- Phosphene
- Photo Bomb or Photobomber – Usage, Meaning & Origin
- Photo shoot vs. photoshoot
- Photogenic vs photographic
- Phrasal adjectives
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrasal Verbs – List, Uses & Examples
- Phrases
- Phubbing
- Pi and Pie – Spelling, Difference & Meaning
- Pica vs. Pika
- Picaresque vs. picturesque
- Picayune
- Picks, Pix or Pyx
- Pickup vs. Pick Up (vs. Pick-up)
- Pidgin vs. Pigeon
- Pie hole
- Pie in the Sky – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Piece of cake
- Piece vs. Peace – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Piecemeal
- Pied Piper
- Pig in a poke
- Pigeon Hole – Origin & Meaning
- Piggy bank
- Piggyback
- Pin money
- Pincer vs. pincher
- Pink slip
- Pipe down and pipe up
- Pipe dream
- Piping Hot – Origin & Meaning
- Pipsqueak
- Pissant
- Pistol vs. Pistil
- Pit stop
- Pitch-perfect and picture-perfect
- Pitchblende
- Pitcher vs picture
- Pith vs pit
- Pithy
- Pixelated vs. pixilated
- Pièce de résistance
- Placate vs placket
- Place card vs placard
- Placebo vs nocebo
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Plain vs. plane
- Plainclothes
- Plaintiff vs defendant
- Plaintive vs plaintiff
- Plait vs. Plate
- Plan B – Idiom & Meaning
- Plantar vs. Planter
- Plaque vs plack
- Plateaus vs. plateaux
- Play By Ear – Meaning and Usage
- Play cat and mouse and play a game of cat and mouse
- Play fast and loose
- Play for keeps
- Play one’s cards right
- Play possum
- Play second fiddle
- Playing Russian roulette
- Playing with fire
- Playwright vs. playwrite
- Pleaded or Pled – Definition & Examples
- Please vs. Pleas
- Pleather and Naugahyde
- Plenary vs preliminary
- Plenitude vs. plentitude
- Plethora
- Pleural vs. Plural
- Plough vs. plow
- Plug-ugly vs pug-ugly
- Plum vs. plumb
- Plural Form – Is It Potatoes or Potatos or Tomatoes or Tomatos?
- Plural of Platypus – Platypuses or Platypi?
- Plutocrat vs autocrat
- Podcast
- Podium vs lectern
- Poetic justice
- Poetry vs prose
- Pogrom vs genocide
- Point in time
- Point of no return
- Point of view, standpoint, viewpoint
- Poisoning the well
- Poisonous vs venomous
- Poker Face – Meaning and Definition
- Pole vs. Poll
- Polemic vs Polemical – What’s the Difference?
- Polish vs. Polish – Meaning & Difference
- Polite company and polite society
- Politics
- Polka dot
- Pollyanna
- Poly- vs mono-
- Polygamy vs. polygyny vs. polyandry
- Pompom vs. pompon (vs. pom-pom etc.)
- Ponderous
- Pony up
- Ponzi scheme and Ponzi game
- Poo vs. pooh
- Poof, Pouf or Pouffe
- Pooh-bah or poobah
- Pooh-poohed
- Pooped
- Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
- Poor-mouth vs bad-mouth
- Pop culture
- Pop one’s clogs
- Pop the question
- Popinjay
- Poppycock
- Populace vs. populous
- Porch vs. Veranda vs. Verandah – Difference & Definition
- Pore over vs. pour over
- Pore, pour or poor
- Pork barrel
- Port vs. starboard
- Portend vs pretend
- Portend vs. portent
- Poseur vs poser
- Possibility vs probability
- Post-truth
- Poster child
- Postpositive adjectives
- Potentiality
- Potluck
- Potter’s field
- POTUS
- Pour cold water on and throw cold water on
- Powwow
- Pox
- Practicable vs. practical
- Practical joke
- Practice What You Preach – Origin & Meaning
- Practise or Practice – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Pragmatism
- Praise vs preys
- Praise vs. Prays
- Prank call or crank call
- Pray vs. prey
- Preaching to the choir
- Prebiotic vs probiotic
- Precedence vs precedents
- Precipitate vs precipitous
- Precocious vs precious
- Predicate Nominative – Definition and Examples
- Predict vs predicate
- Predominantly vs. Predominately – Usage & Meaning
- Premier vs. premiere
- Preposition vs. proposition
- Prescient vs present
- Prescribe vs. proscribe
- Present company excepted vs present company accepted
- Present vs present
- Preserve vs persevere
- Press the flesh
- Presumptive vs. presumptuous
- Pretence vs. pretense
- Pretentious vs portentous
- Preternatural vs supernatural
- Preventative vs. preventive
- Previous vs. prior
- Price gouging
- Pride comes before a fall and pride goeth before a fall
- Pride vs. Pried
- Prima Donna – Definition & Meaning
- Primal scream
- Primrose path
- Principal vs. Principle – Definition & Difference
- Prioritize vs prioritise
- Prise or Prize or Pries – What’s the Difference?
- Privatization vs nationalization
- Privy
- Proactive
- Problematic vs. problematical
- Procede vs. Precede vs. Proceed – What’s the Difference?
- Procrastinate
- Prodigal and prodigy
- Prodigious vs prolific
- Produce vs produce
- Profit vs. Prophet
- Progeny vs prodigy
- Program vs. Programme – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Project vs project
- Proliferate vs profligate
- Prom and The Proms
- Promise vs premise
- Promulgate vs propagate
- Proof by example
- Proof is in the pudding
- Prophecy vs. prophesy
- Propitiate vs expiate
- Proportional vs. proportionate
- Proprietary vs propitiatory
- Props
- Prostate vs. prostrate
- Protagonist vs. Antagonist – Definitions and Examples
- Protean vs protein
- Protégé
- Proved vs. proven
- Proverb vs adage
- Proverbial vs figurative
- Providence vs province
- Province vs provenance
- Proximal vs proximate
- Psalter vs salter
- Pseudo
- Psych vs. psyche
- Psychopath vs. sociopath
- Pull one’s punches
- Pull one’s weight
- Pull out all the stops
- Pull rank
- Pull strings
- Pull the plug
- Pull the rug out from under
- Pull the wool over someone’s eyes
- Pull Up Stakes or Up Sticks – Origin & Meaning
- Pulling one’s leg
- Pullout, pull-out, pull out
- Punch list
- Punctilious vs punctual
- Pupal vs. Pupil
- Puppy love or poppy love
- Pure as the driven snow
- Purple prose
- Purpose vs porpoise
- Purposely vs. purposefully
- Push someone’s buttons
- Push the envelope
- Pushing Up Daisies – Meaning & Origin
- Pusillanimous
- Pussy vs pussy
- Put a damper on
- Put on heirs or airs
- Put on hold
- Put on ice
- Put one’s best foot forward
- Put one’s cards on the table and lay one’s cards on the table
- Put one’s finger on something
- Put something on the map
- Put the cart before the horse
- Put two and two together
- Put up or shut up
- Put up with
- Put up your dukes
- Put words in someone’s mouth
- Putative vs punitive
- Putting vs putting
- Putty in one’s hands
Q
- Quaff vs coif
- Qualitative vs. qualitive
- Qualitative, quantitative
- Quality time
- Qualm vs calm
- Quantitative vs. quantitive
- Quantum
- Quarts vs. Quartz
- Quash vs. squash
- Quasi
- Quay
- Que sera sera
- Quelch vs. squelch
- Query vs inquiry
- Question Mark Grammar & Punctuation Rules
- Quicksilver
- Quid pro quo
- Quire vs. Choir – Meaning, Difference & Spelling
- Quisling
- Quiver vs quaver
- Quixotic
- Quotation Marks (“) – Rules and Examples
- Quote Unquote – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Quote vs quotation
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- A penny saved is a penny earned
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A Piece of Work – Meaning & Examples
- A Pound of Flesh – Origin & Meaning
- A.M. or P.M. – How to Write Them (+ Examples)
- Annual, perennial or biennial
- Apart vs. A Part – Usage, Difference & Definition
- As pleased as Punch
- Bathos vs pathos
- Brackets vs. Parentheses
- Burst Your Bubble or Pop Your Bubble – Origin & Meaning
- Can of worms vs pandora’s box
- Car park vs parking lot
- Cay vs. Key vs. Quay – Homophones, Pronunciation & Definition
- Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
- Dichotomy vs paradox
- Didactic vs pedantic
- Do a Houdini and pull a Houdini
- Dominant vs predominant
- Downplay or play down
- Epidemic vs. Pandemic
- Equator vs prime meridian
- Equivocate vs prevaricate
- Faro, Farrow or Pharaoh
- Few vs. Phew
- File, Phial or Faille
- Finger Pointing or Pointing Finger – Meaning and Examples
- Fiscal vs physical
- Flocks vs phlox
- From Pillar to Post – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Futz vs. Putz or Futzing Around vs. Putzing Around
- Have one’s ears pinned back vs pin one’s ears back
- How to Use Cannot See the Forest for the Trees Correctly
- How to Use Perchance Correctly
- Impecunious and pecunious
- In point of fact or in fact or as a matter of fact
- Is “President” Capitalized?
- Like pulling teeth
- p.d.q.
- Repugnant vs pungent
- Say one’s peace vs piece
- Schmuck versus putz
- Share and share alike vs per stirpes
- Sisyphean, Promethean or Herculean
- Solitaire and patience games
- Stand up vs prop up
- Take with a grain of salt and take with a pinch of salt
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The penny dropped
- The pick of the litter
- The pot calling the kettle black
- The quick and the dead
- Thoroughbred vs purebred
- Tomayto, tomahto and potayto, potahto
- Tween
- Verbatim vs paraphrase
- Wallop and pack a wallop
- What are Prepositions? Definition & Examples (with Worksheet)
- What Are Pronouns? Rules & Examples
- What Does Parkour Mean? – Definition & Spelling
- What is a Participle? Huge List of Examples
- What Is a Peanut Gallery? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Pet Peeve? – Meaning, Origin & Examples
- What Is a Prodigal Son? – Meaning, Definition & Origin
- What Is a Round Robin? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is Pig Latin? – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- When pigs fly and pigs might fly
- Work in progress vs work in process
- Writing in First, Second, and Third Person – Ultimate Guide (Worksheet Included)
- Yank, jerk, or pull someone’s chain