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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Grateful to ( কৃতজ্ঞ (ব্যক্তি) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Devoid of ( বর্জিত ) He is devoid of common sense.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Beware of ( সতর্ক হওয়া ) Beware of pick-pockets.

Idioms:

  • At one’s own sweet will ( খুশি মতো ) He still does it at his own sweet will.
  • Bag and baggage ( তল্পিতল্পাসহ ) He left the place bag and baggage.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • In a nut shell ( খুব সংক্ষেপে ) Tell the story in a nut shell.
  • clever hit ( কথার মতন কথা )
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.