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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Sensible of ( বোধ সম্পন্ন ) She is sensible of the risk.
  • Sure of ( নিশ্চিত ) I am sure of success.
  • Limit to ( সীমা ) You should have a limit to your demands.
  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.
  • Aptitude for ( স্বাভাবিক দক্ষতা ) I have no aptitude for Mathematics.

Idioms:

  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.