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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Suffer from ( কষ্ট পাওয়া ) He is suffering from fever.
  • Die in ( মারা যাওয়া (শান্তি) ) Let me die in peace.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.
  • Prompt in ( চটপটে (উত্তর) ) He is prompt in his answer.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Deprived of ( বঞ্চিত ) He was deprived of his property.

Idioms:

  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • walk in someone shoes ( কারো অভিজ্ঞতা বা অবস্থানে থাকা বোঝায় ) When you walk in my shoes, you might understand.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.