"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.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Useful for ( প্রয়োজনীয় (উদ্দেশ্য) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Indebted to ( ঋণী ; কৃতজ্ঞ ) I am indebted to him for this help.

Idioms:

  • keep your chin up ( সুখি হওয়া ) His attempt keep your chin up
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Flesh and blood ( রক্তমাংসের শরীর ) Flesh and blood cannot bear with such insults.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.