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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Owe to ( ঋণী হওয়া ) I owe my all to him.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Wish for ( আকাঙ্খা করা ) I do not wish for name and fame.
  • Dull of ( বোধশক্তিহীন ) He is dull of understanding.
  • Good at ( দক্ষ ) He is good at tennis.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.

Idioms:

  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.
  • Call to mind ( স্মরণ করা ) I cannot call to mind your name.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )