"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
  • Bound for ( যাত্রার জন্য প্রস্তুত ) The ship is bound for England.
  • Sentence to ( দন্ডাদেশ দেওয়া ) He was sentenced to death for murder.
  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )