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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Lack of ( অভাব ) I have no lack of friends.
  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.

Idioms:

  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.