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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Burst into ( ভেঙ্গে পড়া ) He burst into tears at the sad news
  • Belong to ( অধিকারে থাকা ) This house is no more belongs to him.
  • Acquit of ( খালাস দেওয়া ) High court acquit him of the charge.
  • Render into ( অনুবাদ করা ) Render the passage into Hindi.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • bad debts ( অশোধ্য বা অনাদায়ী ঋন ; যে ঋন শোধ করা যাবে না )