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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Deaf of ( বধির ) He is deaf of one ear.
  • Envy of ( ঈর্ষা ) I have no envy of him.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Make out ( বুঝতে পারা ) I cannot make out what you say.

Idioms:

  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • Call a spade a spade ( অপ্রিয় সত্য কথা বলা ) I have no hesitation to call a spade a spade.
  • Household word ( সকলের পরিচিত নাম ) Mother Teresa's name has now become a household word.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )