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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Excuse for ( অব্যাহতি দেওয়া ) He will not be excused for coming late.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • Sensitive to ( সংবেদনশীল ) She is sensitive to cold.

Idioms:

  • harp on the same string ( এক কথা বারবার বলা )
  • Cats and dogs ( মূষল ধারে ) It was raining cats and dogs.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )
  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.