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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Mourn for ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn for the dead.
  • Envious of ( ঈর্ষান্বিত ) I am not envious of his riches.
  • Restrict to ( সীমাবব্ধ করা ) Admission was restricted to students.
  • Admit into ( প্রবেশাধিকার দেওয়া ) He was admitted into the room.
  • Feel for ( সহানুভূতি অনুভব করা ) I feel for you in your trouble.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.

Idioms:

  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Beat black and blue ( প্রচন্ড প্রহার করা ; উত্তম-মধ্যম দেওয়া ) They beat the thief black and blue.