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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Respect to ( সম্বন্ধে ) We are talking with respect to that matter.
  • Prior to ( পূর্বে ) Prior to that, he was in a wretched condition.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Pleased with ( সন্তুষ্ট ) I am pleased with him.
  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.

Idioms:

  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.