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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Careful of ( যত্নবান ) He is careful of his money.
  • Sick of ( পীড়িত, ক্লান্ত ) He is sick for home.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Live beyond ( বাঁচা ) He lives beyond his means.

Idioms:

  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • On the whole ( মোটের উপর ) On the whole, his conduct is good.
  • Take one to task ( তিরস্কার করা ) He was taken to task for negligence of duty.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.