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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Cure of ( আরগ্য হওয়া ) He will be cured of the disease very soon.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Familiar with ( সুপরিচিত ) He is familiar with my brother.
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Ambition for ( উচ্চাকাঙ্খা ) He has no ambition for fame in life.
  • Apply to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He applied to he Secretary for the post.

Idioms:

  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Slip of the pen ( লেখায় অসতর্কতাবশতঃ সামান্য ভুল ) This mistake is due to a slip of the pen.