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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Vain of ( অহঙ্কারী ) She is vain of her beauty.
  • Jealous of ( ঈর্ষা পরায়ণ ) I am not at all jealous of his fortune.
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.

Idioms:

  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • Achilles heel ( দুর্বলতা বা ত্রুটি ) He is trying to hide but everybody knows his achilles' heel
  • Come to light ( প্রকাশিত হওয়া ) Their private talk has come to light at last.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • Fall flat ( ফলপ্রসূ না হওয়া ) My advice feel fiat on him.