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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.
  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • Believe in ( বিশ্বাস করা ) I do not believe in his honesty.
  • Mourn for ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn for the dead.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.

Idioms:

  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.