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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Bent on ( ঝোঁক ) He is bent on playing cricket.
  • Ambition for ( উচ্চাকাঙ্খা ) He has no ambition for fame in life.

Idioms:

  • Get rid of ( মুক্তি পাওয়া ) Try to get rid of that rogue.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • Out of the wood ( বিপদমুক্ত ) He is not yet out of the wood.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.