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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Tolerant of ( সহিষ্ণু ) We must be tolerant of opposition.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Pity for ( করুণা ) Have pity for the poor.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.

Idioms:

  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • In the long run ( পরিশেষে ) You will have to suffer in the long run.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.