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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Make out ( বুঝতে পারা ) I cannot make out what you say.
  • Partial to ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He is partial to his son.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.
  • Devote to ( উৎসর্গ করা ) He devotes much time to study.
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • In black and white ( লিখিতভাবে ) Put down the statement in black and white.
  • In order to ( উদ্দেশ্য ) He came here in order to meet my mother.
  • In fine ( পরিশেষ ) In fine he declared his plan.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )