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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Long for ( কামনা করা ) He longed for fame.
  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Open at ( উন্মুক্ত করা বা খোলা ) Open at page 20 of English book.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.
  • Sanguine of ( নিশ্চিত ) She is sanguine of her success.
  • Brood on (over) ( মন খারাপ করা ) Do not brood over your misfortune.

Idioms:

  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.
  • a bad apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few bad apples.
  • Pros and cons ( খুঁটিনাটি ) You should consider the Pros and cons of the system.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.