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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Admit to ( ভর্তি করা ) Khadil was admitted to university.
  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Quarrel over ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another over the property.
  • Acquainted with ( পরিচিত ) I am acquainted with her.
  • Die of ( মারা যাওয়া (রোগ) ) He died of cholera.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?

Idioms:

  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Gift of the gab ( বাককটুতা ) An advocate should have the gift of the gab.
  • Hard nut to crack ( কঠিন সমস্যা ) The problem of adult education is really a hard nut to crack.
  • In a fix ( মুশকিলে পতিত ) He is in a fix and does not know what to do.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )