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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Quarrel over ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another over the property.
  • Long for ( কামনা করা ) He longed for fame.
  • Deal in ( ব্যবসা করা ) He deals in rice.
  • Admit to ( ভর্তি করা ) Khadil was admitted to university.
  • Despair of ( নিরাশ হওয়া ) Do not despair of success.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • blue blood ( অভিজাত বংশের রক্ত বহনকারী )
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • A slow coach ( কর্মকুণ্ঠ ও মন্থর ব্যাক্তি ) Roky is known as a slow coach to his friend circle.