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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Play on ( বাজানো ) He played on guitar.
  • Argue against ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him against the point.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Take after ( সদৃশ হওয়া ) The boy takes after his father.
  • Eager about ( আগ্রহী ) He is eager about the result.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.

Idioms:

  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • At large ( স্বাধীন ) The anti-socials are still at large.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel