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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Envious of ( ঈর্ষান্বিত ) I am not envious of his riches.
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Sanguine of ( নিশ্চিত ) She is sanguine of her success.
  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.

Idioms:

  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • By leaps and bounds ( অতি দ্রুতগতিতে ) The population of Bangladesh is increasing by leaps and bounds.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • Out of sorts ( ঈষৎ অসুস্থ ) He is out of sorts now.