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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Prefer to ( অধিক পছন্দ করা ) I prefer coffee to tea.
  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.
  • Plead with ( ওকালতি করা (ব্যক্তি) ) I pleaded with him for justice.
  • Think of ( চিন্তা করা (ব্যক্তি) ) What do you think of (about) him?
  • Alarmed at ( আতঙ্কিত ) We were alarmed at he news.
  • Overcome with ( দমন করা ) He was overcome with fatigue.

Idioms:

  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Far and wide ( সর্বত্র ) His fame as a scholar spread far and wide
  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • Cock and bull story ( গাঁজাখুরি গল্প ) Nobody will believe your cock and bull story
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel