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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Play on ( বাজানো ) He played on guitar.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Render into ( অনুবাদ করা ) Render the passage into Hindi.
  • Slow of ( ধীর ) He is slow of speech. He is slow at figures. He is slow in writing.
  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Depend on ( নির্ভর করা ) Success depends on hard work.

Idioms:

  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Of course ( অবশ্যই ) Of course, you know what that means
  • In full swing ( পুরাদমে ) The school is now in full swing.