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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Admit of ( স্বীকৃতি পাওয়া ) Your conduct admits of no excuse.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.
  • Respect to ( সম্বন্ধে ) We are talking with respect to that matter.

Idioms:

  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • be on ones back ( একেবারে কুপোকাত )
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.