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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.
  • Vain of ( অহঙ্কারী ) She is vain of her beauty.
  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Supply to ( যোগান দেওয়া (ব্যক্তি) ) He supplied food to us.

Idioms:

  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • A rainy day ( দুর্দিন ) Everybody should save something for rainy day.
  • host in himself ( একাই একশ )
  • In cold blood ( ঠান্ডা মাথায় ) They committed this murder in cold blood.
  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )