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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Rid of ( মুক্ত হওয়া ) Get rid of bad company.
  • Part with ( বিচ্ছিন্ন হওয়া (কোন জিনিস) ) She parted with the ring.
  • Divert from ( অন্যদিকে নেওয়া ) The loud music diverted my attention from study.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Informed of ( অবহিত ) I was not informed of your misfortune.
  • Ashamed for ( লজ্জিত ) I feel ashamed for you.

Idioms:

  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.