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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Restore to ( ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া ) Restore his property to him.
  • Search for ( অনুসন্ধান ) Their search for the thing was of no avail.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.

Idioms:

  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.