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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.
  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Despair of ( নিরাশ হওয়া ) Do not despair of success.
  • Enquire of ( অনুসন্ধান করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He enquired of me into the matter.
  • Attend upon ( সেবা করা ) She attends upon her mother.
  • Prone to ( ঝোঁক আছে এমন ) He is prone to idleness.

Idioms:

  • As usual ( যথারীতি ) He is late as usual.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush