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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Brood on (over) ( মন খারাপ করা ) Do not brood over your misfortune.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Envy of ( ঈর্ষা ) I have no envy of him.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.

Idioms:

  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • A slow coach ( কর্মকুণ্ঠ ও মন্থর ব্যাক্তি ) Roky is known as a slow coach to his friend circle.
  • Part and parcel ( অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ ) Discipline is part and parcel of administration.
  • Catch red handed ( হাতে নাতে ধরা ) The thief was caught red handed.