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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Slow of ( ধীর ) He is slow of speech. He is slow at figures. He is slow in writing.
  • Respect to ( সম্বন্ধে ) We are talking with respect to that matter.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Charge with ( অভিযোগ করা (ত্রুটি) ) He was charged with theft.
  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.

Idioms:

  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • Slip of the tongue ( বলায় সামান্য ভুল ) This is a slip of the tongue, don't lay much stress on it.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.