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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Obsessed by ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) He is obsessed by the idea.
  • Hard at ( উদ্যমী ) He is hard at work before examination.
  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Provide with ( সরবরাহ করা (কোন জিনিস) ) I provide (supply) him with food.
  • Oblige to ( বাধিত করা ) I am obliged to him for his co-operation.

Idioms:

  • have ones eyes ( কারও হাতে বিস্তর কাজ থাকা )
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • Big gun ( নেতৃস্থানীয় ব্যক্তি ) He is a big gun of our locality.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.