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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Depend on ( নির্ভর করা ) Success depends on hard work.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Open to ( উন্মুক্ত ) His plan is open to objection.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.

Idioms:

  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Fall flat ( ফলপ্রসূ না হওয়া ) My advice feel fiat on him.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )