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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Look after ( দেখাশোনা করা ) There is none to look after her.
  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Vary from ( আলাদা হওয়া ) His opinion varies from his brother's.

Idioms:

  • In cold blood ( ঠান্ডা মাথায় ) They committed this murder in cold blood.
  • Achilles heel ( দুর্বলতা বা ত্রুটি ) He is trying to hide but everybody knows his achilles' heel
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • On the whole ( মোটের উপর ) On the whole, his conduct is good.