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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Envy of ( ঈর্ষা ) I have no envy of him.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Occupied in ( নিয়োজিত ) He is occupied in writing a letter.
  • Apply for ( আবেদন করা (কোন কিছু) ) He applied to the Secretary for the post.

Idioms:

  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • Bed of roses ( আরামদায়ক অবস্থা ) Life is not a bed of roses.
  • Ins and outs ( খুঁটিনাটি সব কিছু ) I know the ins and outs of the matter.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.