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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.
  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.

Idioms:

  • At random ( বেপরোয়া ; এলোমেলো ) He hit the ball at random.
  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.