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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Want of ( অভাব ) We have no want of money.
  • Wonder at ( অবাক হওয়া ) I wonder at his ignorance.
  • Object to ( আপত্তি করা ) He objected to my proposal.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Dispose of ( বিক্রয় করা ) He disposed of his books.

Idioms:

  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • All on a sudden ( হঠাৎ ) All on a sudden a tiger came out of the bush.
  • At bay ( কোনঠাসা ) The tiger was at bay in the bush.
  • harp on the same string ( এক কথা বারবার বলা )
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.