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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Count for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) His advice counts for nothing.
  • Aptitude for ( স্বাভাবিক দক্ষতা ) I have no aptitude for Mathematics.
  • Zealous for ( আগ্রহী ) He is zealous for improvement.
  • Supply with ( যোগান দেওয়া (কোন জিনিস) ) He supplied us with food.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.
  • Prevent from ( বারণ করা ; প্রতিরোধ করা ) I prevented him from going there.‌

Idioms:

  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • Hard nut to crack ( কঠিন সমস্যা ) The problem of adult education is really a hard nut to crack.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.