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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Sick of ( পীড়িত, ক্লান্ত ) He is sick for home.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.
  • Useful for ( প্রয়োজনীয় (উদ্দেশ্য) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • At once back and call ( বাধ্য ) He is always at my back and call.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • Beat black and blue ( প্রচন্ড প্রহার করা ; উত্তম-মধ্যম দেওয়া ) They beat the thief black and blue.
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • In a nut shell ( খুব সংক্ষেপে ) Tell the story in a nut shell.