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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Hope for ( আশা করা ) Let us hope for the best.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Want of ( অভাব ) We have no want of money.
  • Glance at ( চোখ বুলিয়ে নেওয়া ) He glanced at me casually.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Void of ( বিহীন ) He is void of common sense.

Idioms:

  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • Bag and baggage ( তল্পিতল্পাসহ ) He left the place bag and baggage.