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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Admit of ( স্বীকৃতি পাওয়া ) Your conduct admits of no excuse.
  • Void of ( বিহীন ) He is void of common sense.
  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.

Idioms:

  • Maiden speech ( প্রথম বক্তৃতা ) His maiden speech fell flat on the audience.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • the exact point ( কাঁটায়-কাঁটায় )
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.