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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Lacking in ( অভাব আছে এমন ) He is lacking in courage.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.
  • Grateful for ( কৃতজ্ঞ (কোনকিছু) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Opportunity for ( সুযোগ ) I have no opportunity for (of) doing the work.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • Null and void ( বাতিল ) The deed has been null and void now.