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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Clue to ( সূত্র ) Find out the clue to the mystery.
  • Sensitive to ( সংবেদনশীল ) She is sensitive to cold.
  • Suffer from ( কষ্ট পাওয়া ) He is suffering from fever.
  • Overcome with ( দমন করা ) He was overcome with fatigue.
  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.

Idioms:

  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )
  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • Burning question ( তীব্র বিতর্কের বিষয় ) The problem of the dowry system is the burning question of the day.