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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Bent on ( ঝোঁক ) He is bent on playing cricket.
  • Lay by ( সঞ্চয় করা ) Lay by something for the old age.
  • Afraid of ( ভীত ) I am not afraid of ghosts.
  • Divert from ( অন্যদিকে নেওয়া ) The loud music diverted my attention from study.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • be up and doing ( উঠে-পড়ে লাগা )
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • As if ( যেন ) He swims so beautifully as if he is the Olympic gold medalist.
  • word of no implication ( কথার কথা )
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses