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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pass for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) He passes for a clever man.
  • Apply for ( আবেদন করা (কোন কিছু) ) He applied to the Secretary for the post.
  • Long for ( কামনা করা ) He longed for fame.
  • Remedy for ( প্রতিকার ) There is no remedy for this disease.
  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.

Idioms:

  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.
  • Bed of roses ( আরামদায়ক অবস্থা ) Life is not a bed of roses.
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist