"I was reading the dictionary. I thought
it was a poem about everything."
                     --Steven Wright

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Restrict to ( সীমাবব্ধ করা ) Admission was restricted to students.
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Hanker after ( লালায়িত হওয়া ) Do not hanker after wealth.
  • Dislike for ( অপছন্দ ) He has dislike for dogs.
  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.

Idioms:

  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Carry the day ( জয়লাভ করা ) Rajib, the best player of the school, carried the day in the annual sports.
  • walk in someone shoes ( কারো অভিজ্ঞতা বা অবস্থানে থাকা বোঝায় ) When you walk in my shoes, you might understand.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.