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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Grateful to ( কৃতজ্ঞ (ব্যক্তি) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Tired of ( ক্লান্ত ) I am Tired of doing the same thing day after day.
  • Confident to ( আবদ্ধ (শয্যা) ) He is confined to bed.
  • Tide over ( অতিক্রম করা ) He will soon tide over the difficulty.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Occupied in ( নিয়োজিত ) He is occupied in writing a letter.

Idioms:

  • In vain ( বৃথা ) All his attempts were in vain.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • a bad apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few bad apples.
  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.