A collocation is a set of words — usually a pair — that "go" together, like "strong coffee" and "weak tea." They're too literal to call idioms and too boring to call cliches. They're shortcuts ...

in which we asked you to pair a word with the same word (or the same spelling) or with a homophone — a differently spelled word that sounds the same — and define the resulting phrase.

There are many idiomatic pairs like these usually with the linking word of and in English. There are pairs of adverbs, pairs of nouns and identical/prepositional pairs like those you have listed ...

I suspect we pair the word “fall” with “love” because ... nouns – surely reaches its zenith in the oft-used modern phrase “to tackle climate change”. It is a phrase that has been ...