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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Hard at ( উদ্যমী ) He is hard at work before examination.
  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Tired of ( ক্লান্ত ) I am Tired of doing the same thing day after day.
  • Think over ( চিন্তা করা (কোনকিছু) ) Think carefully over his advice.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.

Idioms:

  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • Cock and bull story ( গাঁজাখুরি গল্প ) Nobody will believe your cock and bull story
  • All on a sudden ( হঠাৎ ) All on a sudden a tiger came out of the bush.
  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • Call a spade a spade ( অপ্রিয় সত্য কথা বলা ) I have no hesitation to call a spade a spade.