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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.
  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.
  • Burst out ( ফেটে পড়া ) He burst out laughing at my joke.
  • Grateful for ( কৃতজ্ঞ (কোনকিছু) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Opportunity for ( সুযোগ ) I have no opportunity for (of) doing the work.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.

Idioms:

  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • Red letter day ( স্মরণীয় দিন ) The 21 February is a red letter day in the history of Bangladesh.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • Achilles heel ( দুর্বলতা বা ত্রুটি ) He is trying to hide but everybody knows his achilles' heel
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.