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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Apply for ( আবেদন করা (কোন কিছু) ) He applied to the Secretary for the post.
  • End in ( শেষ হওয়া ) All his plans ended in smoke.
  • Grateful to ( কৃতজ্ঞ (ব্যক্তি) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Access to ( প্রবেশ অধিকার ) Public has no access to this area.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.
  • Inferior to ( নিকৃষ্ট ; হীন ) He is inferior to his neighbour.

Idioms:

  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.