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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Bent on ( ঝোঁক ) He is bent on playing cricket.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • vile sycophant ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • Round the clock ( সমস্ত দিন ) He is working round the clock.
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • Part and parcel ( অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ ) Discipline is part and parcel of administration.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.