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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Ashamed for ( লজ্জিত ) I feel ashamed for you.
  • Sentence to ( দন্ডাদেশ দেওয়া ) He was sentenced to death for murder.
  • Grateful for ( কৃতজ্ঞ (কোনকিছু) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Conscious of ( সচেতন ) He is conscious of his weakness.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).

Idioms:

  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Stick to ( দৃঢ়ভাবে লেগে থাকা ) He sticks to his decision.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • By chance ( দৈবাৎ ) I met him on the way by chance.