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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Greed for ( লোভ ) He has no greed for wealth.
  • Die for ( মারা যাওয়া (কারণ) ) He died for his country.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).

Idioms:

  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • By chance ( দৈবাৎ ) I met him on the way by chance.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Out of sorts ( ঈষৎ অসুস্থ ) He is out of sorts now.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.