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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Need of ( প্রয়োজনীয় ) I am in need of more money.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Overcome by ( দমন করা ) He was overcome by anger.

Idioms:

  • Heart and soul ( সর্বান্তঃকরণে ) Try heard and soul and you will succeed.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • From hand to mouth ( দিন আনে দিন খায় ) The poor man lives form hand to mouth.
  • ABC ( প্রাথমিক জ্ঞান ) Everybody must know at least the ABC of religion.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.