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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.
  • Offended at ( বিরক্ত (কোন কাজে) ) I am offended with you at your conduct.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Hanker after ( লালায়িত হওয়া ) Do not hanker after wealth.
  • Tolerant of ( সহিষ্ণু ) We must be tolerant of opposition.

Idioms:

  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • 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?