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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Slow of ( ধীর ) He is slow of speech. He is slow at figures. He is slow in writing.
  • Beware of ( সতর্ক হওয়া ) Beware of pick-pockets.
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Render into ( অনুবাদ করা ) Render the passage into Hindi.
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.

Idioms:

  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • tickled pink ( খুব খুশি করানো ) She was tickled pink by the good news.
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.
  • Apple of discord ( বিবাদেয় বিষয় ) The paternal property has become an apple of discord between the two brothers.
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.