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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.
  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Abide by ( মেনে চলা ) One should abide by the rules
  • Addicted to ( আসক্ত ) He is addicted to separate.
  • Quarrel about ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another about the property.

Idioms:

  • Pros and cons ( খুঁটিনাটি ) You should consider the Pros and cons of the system.
  • At a low ebb ( নিম্নমুখী ) His fame is at a low ebb now.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?