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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Afraid of ( ভীত ) I am not afraid of ghosts.
  • Anxious for ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) He is anxious for getting a job.
  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • Rob of ( অপহরণ করা ) Somebody robbed him of his purse.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.

Idioms:

  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • By all means ( সবর্প্রকার ) Try to do it by all means.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )