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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.
  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.
  • Pass for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) He passes for a clever man.

Idioms:

  • tickled pink ( খুব খুশি করানো ) She was tickled pink by the good news.
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • At random ( বেপরোয়া ; এলোমেলো ) He hit the ball at random.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.