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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Render into ( অনুবাদ করা ) Render the passage into Hindi.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).
  • Boast of ( গর্ব করা ) Do not boast of your wealth.
  • Ashamed for ( লজ্জিত ) I feel ashamed for you.
  • Anxious about ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) I am anxious about my health.

Idioms:

  • Take one to task ( তিরস্কার করা ) He was taken to task for negligence of duty.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Beat black and blue ( প্রচন্ড প্রহার করা ; উত্তম-মধ্যম দেওয়া ) They beat the thief black and blue.