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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Offended with ( বিরক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I am offended with you at your conduct.
  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Believe in ( বিশ্বাস করা ) I do not believe in his honesty.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.

Idioms:

  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.
  • Bed of roses ( আরামদায়ক অবস্থা ) Life is not a bed of roses.
  • loose cannon ( অপ্রত্যাশিত ) He is a bit of a loose cannon.
  • At random ( বেপরোয়া ; এলোমেলো ) He hit the ball at random.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.