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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Dull of ( বোধশক্তিহীন ) He is dull of understanding.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Delight in ( আনন্দ ) He takes delight in music.
  • Live within ( বাঁচা ) He live within his means
  • Deaf of ( বধির ) He is deaf of one ear.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.

Idioms:

  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.
  • Call a spade a spade ( অপ্রিয় সত্য কথা বলা ) I have no hesitation to call a spade a spade.
  • Call to mind ( স্মরণ করা ) I cannot call to mind your name.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.