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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Engaged with ( নিযুক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Plead with ( ওকালতি করা (ব্যক্তি) ) I pleaded with him for justice.
  • True to ( বিশ্বস্ত ) He is true to his master.
  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.

Idioms:

  • Slow coach ( অলস প্রকৃতির লোক ) You cannot expect much from a slow coach like him.
  • In force ( বলবৎ ) This law is in force now.
  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.