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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Count upon ( নির্ভর করা ) I count upon your help for this work.
  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.
  • Need of ( প্রয়োজনীয় ) I am in need of more money.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Sick of ( পীড়িত, ক্লান্ত ) He is sick for home.

Idioms:

  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • by dint of ( ফলে (সাধারণত বল প্রয়োগের ফলে) )
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.