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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Search for ( অনুসন্ধান ) Their search for the thing was of no avail.
  • Die for ( মারা যাওয়া (কারণ) ) He died for his country.
  • Pleased with ( সন্তুষ্ট ) I am pleased with him.

Idioms:

  • by dint of ( ফলে (সাধারণত বল প্রয়োগের ফলে) )
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • At bay ( কোনঠাসা ) The tiger was at bay in the bush.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Book worm ( গ্রন্থকীট ) Don't be a book worm.