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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Tired of ( ক্লান্ত ) I am Tired of doing the same thing day after day.
  • Slow of ( ধীর ) He is slow of speech. He is slow at figures. He is slow in writing.
  • Search for ( অনুসন্ধান ) Their search for the thing was of no avail.
  • Sick of ( পীড়িত, ক্লান্ত ) He is sick for home.
  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Heart and soul ( সর্বান্তঃকরণে ) Try heard and soul and you will succeed.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • Get rid of ( মুক্তি পাওয়া ) Try to get rid of that rogue.