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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.
  • Confident to ( আবদ্ধ (শয্যা) ) He is confined to bed.
  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.
  • Delight in ( আনন্দ ) He takes delight in music.
  • Callous to ( উদাসীন ) He is callous to my suffering.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.

Idioms:

  • Take one to task ( তিরস্কার করা ) He was taken to task for negligence of duty.
  • Heart and soul ( সর্বান্তঃকরণে ) Try heard and soul and you will succeed.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • put the cart before the horse ( স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা উলটাইয়া দেওয়া ; অস্বাভাবিক অবস্থা পরিণত করা )
  • In lieu of ( পরিবর্তে ) Give me this pen in lieu of that.