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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Weary of ( ক্লান্ত ) He is weary of hard life.
  • Jump at ( আগ্রহ সহকারে গ্রহণ করা ) Do not jump at the offer.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Anxious about ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) I am anxious about my health.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.

Idioms:

  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • In cold blood ( ঠান্ডা মাথায় ) They committed this murder in cold blood.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.