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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.
  • Officiate in ( পরিবর্তে কাজ করা (পদ) ) He officiated for me in that post.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Apply to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He applied to he Secretary for the post.
  • Obsessed by ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) He is obsessed by the idea.
  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.

Idioms:

  • be up and doing ( উঠে-পড়ে লাগা )
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.