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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Deaf to ( শুনতে অনিচ্ছুক ) He is deaf to my request.
  • Long for ( কামনা করা ) He longed for fame.
  • Live beyond ( বাঁচা ) He lives beyond his means.
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Assign to ( নির্দিষ্ট করে দেওয়া ) He assigned the task to me.
  • Argue for ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him for the point.

Idioms:

  • Get rid of ( মুক্তি পাওয়া ) Try to get rid of that rogue.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.