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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Rejoice in ( আনন্দ করা ) Every one rejoiced in her success.
  • Make out ( বুঝতে পারা ) I cannot make out what you say.
  • Avail of ( সুযোগ গ্রহণ করা ) You must avail yourself of the business.
  • Apply to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He applied to he Secretary for the post.
  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.

Idioms:

  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • have a bad time ( দুশ্চিন্তায় কাল কাটানো ; দুঃসময়ে পড়া )
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.