There are expressions which are better dispensed with. The posting 'Pet expressions' had two such expressions. Another of them is 'collide head-on.' 'The bus collided head-on with another bus coming from the opposite direction.' Buses travelling in the same direction cannot collide head-on. A out-of-station report on an accident said 'a bus collided head-on with a train.' Was the bus running on the railway or the train on the road? It seems people always unknowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully collate 'head-on' with 'collide.' Writers shoudl stand guard agianst such use.
One more such word is 'separate.' 'The police filed two separate cases' or 'the law enforcers in two separate drives.' Two cannot be single; they are, of course, separate.
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