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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.
  • False to ( মিথ্যাবাদী ) I cannot be false to my friend.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Addicted to ( আসক্ত ) He is addicted to separate.
  • Require of ( প্রয়োজন হওয়া (কোন কিছু) ) I required a loan of him.

Idioms:

  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • ABC ( প্রাথমিক জ্ঞান ) Everybody must know at least the ABC of religion.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.