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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Endowed with ( ভূষিত ) He is endowed with talents.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Hard at ( উদ্যমী ) He is hard at work before examination.
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.
  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Beat black and blue ( প্রচন্ড প্রহার করা ; উত্তম-মধ্যম দেওয়া ) They beat the thief black and blue.
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • bad faith ( বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা )