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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Guess at ( অনুমান করা ) Can you guess at her age?
  • Trust to ( বিশ্বাস করা (ব্যক্তি) ) You may trust the work to me.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.

Idioms:

  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.