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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Weak of ( দূর্বল ) He is weak of understanding.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Attend upon ( সেবা করা ) She attends upon her mother.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.
  • Excel in ( তুলনামূলক ভাবে সুন্দর হওয়া ) He excels in painting.

Idioms:

  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • breathe out ( নিঃশ্বাস ত্যাগ করা ) At last, he breathed his last breath out, and that was the end.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.