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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Feel for ( সহানুভূতি অনুভব করা ) I feel for you in your trouble.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Pass for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) He passes for a clever man.
  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.
  • Popular with ( জনপ্রিয় ) He is popular with all for his good behaviour.

Idioms:

  • Big gun ( নেতৃস্থানীয় ব্যক্তি ) He is a big gun of our locality.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • Tooth and nail ( তীব্রভাবে ) He fought tooth and nail against his enemy.
  • Cats and dogs ( মূষল ধারে ) It was raining cats and dogs.
  • Stick to ( দৃঢ়ভাবে লেগে থাকা ) He sticks to his decision.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.