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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Taste for ( রুচি ) She has no taste for music.
  • Congratulate on ( অভিনন্দিত করা ) I congratulate you on your success.
  • Destined to ( ভাগ্য নির্দিষ্ট ) He was destined to death.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.

Idioms:

  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.