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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Officiate in ( পরিবর্তে কাজ করা (পদ) ) He officiated for me in that post.
  • Abide by ( মেনে চলা ) One should abide by the rules
  • Differ on ( ভিন্ন মত হওয়া (ব্যপার) ) I differ with you on this point.
  • Live for ( বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives for fame.
  • Pity for ( করুণা ) Have pity for the poor.

Idioms:

  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.
  • Out of the wood ( বিপদমুক্ত ) He is not yet out of the wood.
  • A rainy day ( দুর্দিন ) Everybody should save something for rainy day.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.