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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Deprived of ( বঞ্চিত ) He was deprived of his property.
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.
  • Allot to ( বিলি করা ) One room has been allotted to him.
  • Greed for ( লোভ ) He has no greed for wealth.
  • Fond of ( অনুরাগী ) Children are fond of sweets.

Idioms:

  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Catch red handed ( হাতে নাতে ধরা ) The thief was caught red handed.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )