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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Deaf to ( শুনতে অনিচ্ছুক ) He is deaf to my request.
  • Trust to ( বিশ্বাস করা (ব্যক্তি) ) You may trust the work to me.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Marry to ( বিবাহ দেওয়া ) He married his daughter to a rich man.
  • Allot to ( বিলি করা ) One room has been allotted to him.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • At stake ( বিপন্ন ) His life is at stake now.
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.