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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Ambition for ( উচ্চাকাঙ্খা ) He has no ambition for fame in life.
  • Tide over ( অতিক্রম করা ) He will soon tide over the difficulty.
  • Confined in ( আবদ্ধ (কক্ষ) ) He is confined in a room for five days.
  • Indifferent to ( উদাসীন ) He is indifferent to our problem.
  • Suffer from ( কষ্ট পাওয়া ) He is suffering from fever.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • host in himself ( একাই একশ )
  • bad shoot ( অসংগত অনুমান )