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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Search for ( অনুসন্ধান ) Their search for the thing was of no avail.
  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Zest for ( অনুরাগ ) She has no zest for music.
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.
  • Blush with (for) ( লজ্জায় রাঙা হওয়া ) She blushed with shame.
  • Abide by ( মেনে চলা ) One should abide by the rules

Idioms:

  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • To the contrary ( কাহারও বক্তব্যের বিপক্ষে ) In the court he said nothing to the contrary.