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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pleased with ( সন্তুষ্ট ) I am pleased with him.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Search of ( অনুসন্ধানে ব্যস্ত ) They are in search of nice bird.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.
  • Guess at ( অনুমান করা ) Can you guess at her age?
  • Die in ( মারা যাওয়া (শান্তি) ) Let me die in peace.

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.