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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Justice to ( ন্যায় বিচার ) We should do justice to everybody.
  • Addicted to ( আসক্ত ) He is addicted to separate.
  • Taste for ( রুচি ) She has no taste for music.

Idioms:

  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • In order to ( উদ্দেশ্য ) He came here in order to meet my mother.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • On the spur of the moment ( মুহুর্তের উত্তেজনায় ) He did it on the spur of the moment.
  • Part and parcel ( অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ ) Discipline is part and parcel of administration.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.