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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.
  • Sanguine of ( নিশ্চিত ) She is sanguine of her success.
  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Disgrace to ( কলঙ্ক ) He is disgrace to his family.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.

Idioms:

  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.
  • Hard nut to crack ( কঠিন সমস্যা ) The problem of adult education is really a hard nut to crack.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • At last ( অবশেষে ) I got my missing book at last.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )