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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Equal to ( সমতুল্য (কাজ) ) He rose equal to the occasion.
  • Heir of ( উত্তরাধিকারী (ব্যক্তি) ) He is the heir of his uncle.
  • Open to ( উন্মুক্ত ) His plan is open to objection.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.

Idioms:

  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • To the contrary ( কাহারও বক্তব্যের বিপক্ষে ) In the court he said nothing to the contrary.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.