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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.
  • Ignorant of ( অজ্ঞ ) He is ignorant of this rule.
  • Lack of ( অভাব ) I have no lack of friends.
  • Want of ( অভাব ) We have no want of money.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.

Idioms:

  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • bad debts ( অশোধ্য বা অনাদায়ী ঋন ; যে ঋন শোধ করা যাবে না )