painter ----> art
painting ----> picture
paper ----> form // newspaper // assignment
park ranger ----> park service employee
parking meter ----> park the car
part-time job // get ----> hire
pass ----> ticket
pass ----> not fail
pass ----> go without
pass back ----> return
pass by ----> detour
pass down through the centuries ----> conventional
pass out ----> give out
pass with flying colors ----> do extremely well
passion ----> hobby
patronizing ----> customers
pay sb. a visit ----> talk to sb.
perform ----> play
performance auditorium ----> concert hall
permanent home // has gotten bigger and better every year ----> for a long time
personalize // his ~ days ----> his past
pharmacy ----> store
phone ----> tell
phone book ----> telephone directory
photo ----> picture
physical activity ----> exercise
physical fitness ----> physical condition
pick up ----> get
picture ... as ... ----> imagine ... as ...
plain ----> easy
plan to ----> want to
plates and bowls ----> dishes
play it by ear ----> do sth. without a plan
poem ----> literature
poem ----> literature
pollution report // be hard to breathe ----> quality of air
poor quality ----> low quality
position ----> job
positive impact ----> benefits
postpone ----> delay
pour ----> a lot of rain
practically had to move into the lab ----> The course took a lot of time.
practice for the championship ----> spend a lot of time playing
Practice makes perfect. ----> The time sb. spent doing has helped sb.
presentation ----> speech
president // best // all right ----> successful
pretty ----> attractive
pretty interesting // spend hours ----> fascinating
pretty much the same ----> similar
pretty successful // understatement ----> extremely successful
problem ----> trouble
professionally ----> formally
Professor ~ with a flu. ----> The lecture was canceled.
project ----> class assignment
promising ----> likely
prophecy ----> expectation
proposal ----> opinion
push/press/crowd one's luck ----> make too many requests
put ----> move
put a lot of hours // one's schedule isn't too tight ----> require a great deal of time
put everything together ----> complete sth. in time
put it on paper ----> put down // take down // write down
put off ----> not complete // delay // postpone // have not do any work yet
put on ----> play
put on some music ----> listen to
put out with sb. ----> upset
put sth. on paper ----> write sth. down
put up ----> stay in
put/lay one's finger on ----> point out precisely