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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.
  • Argue against ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him against the point.
  • Sanguine of ( নিশ্চিত ) She is sanguine of her success.

Idioms:

  • Get rid of ( মুক্তি পাওয়া ) Try to get rid of that rogue.
  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.