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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Look after ( দেখাশোনা করা ) There is none to look after her.
  • Alarmed at ( আতঙ্কিত ) We were alarmed at he news.
  • Divide among ( ভাগ করা (দুইয়ের অধিক) ) Divide the mangoes among the boys.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.

Idioms:

  • Slip of the pen ( লেখায় অসতর্কতাবশতঃ সামান্য ভুল ) This mistake is due to a slip of the pen.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Gift of the gab ( বাককটুতা ) An advocate should have the gift of the gab.
  • big cheese ( দলের বা পরিবারের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি ) He is the big cheese who control everything in our group.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.