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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Vary from ( আলাদা হওয়া ) His opinion varies from his brother's.
  • Sick of ( পীড়িত, ক্লান্ত ) He is sick for home.
  • Difference between ( পার্থক্য ) There is no difference between the two brothers.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.
  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.

Idioms:

  • Gift of the gab ( বাককটুতা ) An advocate should have the gift of the gab.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • At all events ( যাই ঘটুক সব ক্ষেত্রেই ) I shall stand by him at all events.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • Hold good ( প্রযুক্ত হওয়া ) This ruls will not hold good here.