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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Envy of ( ঈর্ষা ) I have no envy of him.
  • Confident of ( স্থির বিশ্বাসী ) I am confident of success.
  • Take after ( সদৃশ হওয়া ) The boy takes after his father.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Acquainted with ( পরিচিত ) I am acquainted with her.
  • Void of ( বিহীন ) He is void of common sense.

Idioms:

  • At a loss ( হতবু্দ্ধি ; কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় ) He was at a loss and did not know what to do.
  • At one’s own sweet will ( খুশি মতো ) He still does it at his own sweet will.
  • have ones eyes ( কারও হাতে বিস্তর কাজ থাকা )
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.