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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Die by ( মারা যাওয়া (বিষ) ) He died by poison.
  • Die for ( মারা যাওয়া (কারণ) ) He died for his country.
  • Argue against ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him against the point.
  • Lacking in ( অভাব আছে এমন ) He is lacking in courage.
  • Object to ( আপত্তি করা ) He objected to my proposal.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.

Idioms:

  • big cheese ( দলের বা পরিবারের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি ) He is the big cheese who control everything in our group.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • host in himself ( একাই একশ )