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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Render into ( অনুবাদ করা ) Render the passage into Hindi.
  • Think over ( চিন্তা করা (কোনকিছু) ) Think carefully over his advice.
  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Vary from ( আলাদা হওয়া ) His opinion varies from his brother's.

Idioms:

  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Stick to ( দৃঢ়ভাবে লেগে থাকা ) He sticks to his decision.
  • Come off with flying colours ( জয়লাভ করা ) Our School team came off with flying colours.