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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Grateful to ( কৃতজ্ঞ (ব্যক্তি) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Ambition for ( উচ্চাকাঙ্খা ) He has no ambition for fame in life.
  • Indebted to ( ঋণী ; কৃতজ্ঞ ) I am indebted to him for this help.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.
  • Restore to ( ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া ) Restore his property to him.
  • Disgrace to ( কলঙ্ক ) He is disgrace to his family.

Idioms:

  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )