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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Despair of ( নিরাশ হওয়া ) Do not despair of success.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Ashamed for ( লজ্জিত ) I feel ashamed for you.
  • Dispose of ( বিক্রয় করা ) He disposed of his books.
  • Confined in ( আবদ্ধ (কক্ষ) ) He is confined in a room for five days.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).

Idioms:

  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • be up and doing ( উঠে-পড়ে লাগা )
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.
  • At last ( অবশেষে ) I got my missing book at last.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.