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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Apply to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He applied to he Secretary for the post.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Busy with ( ব্যস্ত ) He is busy with his studies.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Sentence to ( দন্ডাদেশ দেওয়া ) He was sentenced to death for murder.
  • Loyal to ( বিশ্বস্ত ) He is loyal to his master.

Idioms:

  • Call a spade a spade ( অপ্রিয় সত্য কথা বলা ) I have no hesitation to call a spade a spade.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • Apple of discord ( বিবাদেয় বিষয় ) The paternal property has become an apple of discord between the two brothers.
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • breathe out ( নিঃশ্বাস ত্যাগ করা ) At last, he breathed his last breath out, and that was the end.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.