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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Die by ( মারা যাওয়া (বিষ) ) He died by poison.
  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Prompt in ( চটপটে (উত্তর) ) He is prompt in his answer.
  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • In vain ( বৃথা ) All his attempts were in vain.
  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • In lieu of ( পরিবর্তে ) Give me this pen in lieu of that.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.