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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Angry with ( রাগান্বিত (ব্যক্তি) ) He is angry with me for speaking against him.
  • Anxious about ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) I am anxious about my health.
  • Overcome by ( দমন করা ) He was overcome by anger.
  • Afraid of ( ভীত ) I am not afraid of ghosts.
  • Responsible to ( দায়ী (প্রাধিকার) ) He is responsible to the committee for his action.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Flesh and blood ( রক্তমাংসের শরীর ) Flesh and blood cannot bear with such insults.
  • Beat black and blue ( প্রচন্ড প্রহার করা ; উত্তম-মধ্যম দেওয়া ) They beat the thief black and blue.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Burning question ( তীব্র বিতর্কের বিষয় ) The problem of the dowry system is the burning question of the day.