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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Look into ( অনুসন্ধান করা ) I am looking into the matter.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Good at ( দক্ষ ) He is good at tennis.

Idioms:

  • Take one to task ( তিরস্কার করা ) He was taken to task for negligence of duty.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • Bed of roses ( আরামদায়ক অবস্থা ) Life is not a bed of roses.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.