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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Care of ( যত্ন নেওয়া ) Take care of your health.
  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Long for ( কামনা করা ) He longed for fame.
  • Qualified for ( যোগ্য ) He is qualified for the post.
  • Eager about ( আগ্রহী ) He is eager about the result.
  • Affectionate to ( স্নেহশীল ) He is affectionate to me.

Idioms:

  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.