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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Impose on ( চাপানো ) The task was imposed on him.
  • Envy of ( ঈর্ষা ) I have no envy of him.
  • Think of ( চিন্তা করা (ব্যক্তি) ) What do you think of (about) him?
  • Supply to ( যোগান দেওয়া (ব্যক্তি) ) He supplied food to us.
  • Rid of ( মুক্ত হওয়া ) Get rid of bad company.

Idioms:

  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Bone of contention ( বিবাদের বিষয় ) The paternal property is the bone of contention between the two brothers.
  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.
  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.
  • After all ( সবকিছু সত্ত্বেও ) After all, he is a patriot.