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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Weary of ( ক্লান্ত ) He is weary of hard life.
  • Think over ( চিন্তা করা (কোনকিছু) ) Think carefully over his advice.
  • Open at ( উন্মুক্ত করা বা খোলা ) Open at page 20 of English book.
  • Appeal to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He appealed to the Headmaster for pardon.

Idioms:

  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Gift of the gab ( বাককটুতা ) An advocate should have the gift of the gab.
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.