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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Hope for ( আশা করা ) Let us hope for the best.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Charge on or against ( অভিযোগ করা (ব্যক্তি) ) Theft was charged on (against) him.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Occupied in ( নিয়োজিত ) He is occupied in writing a letter.

Idioms:

  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • 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
  • word of no implication ( কথার কথা )
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.