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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Require of ( প্রয়োজন হওয়া (কোন কিছু) ) I required a loan of him.
  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Fill with ( পরিপূর্ণ ) This tank is filled with water.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • Bid fair ( ভালো কিছু আশা করা ) He bids fair to be a good doctor.
  • In a fix ( মুশকিলে পতিত ) He is in a fix and does not know what to do.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.