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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Conscious of ( সচেতন ) He is conscious of his weakness.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Liable to ( দায়ী ) He is liable to fine for his misconduct.

Idioms:

  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )
  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • put the cart before the horse ( স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা উলটাইয়া দেওয়া ; অস্বাভাবিক অবস্থা পরিণত করা )