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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Eager for ( আগ্রহী ) He is eager for promotion in service.
  • Rejoice in ( আনন্দ করা ) Every one rejoiced in her success.
  • Addicted to ( আসক্ত ) He is addicted to separate.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Despair of ( নিরাশ হওয়া ) Do not despair of success.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • By chance ( দৈবাৎ ) I met him on the way by chance.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.