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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Deal in ( ব্যবসা করা ) He deals in rice.
  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Deaf to ( শুনতে অনিচ্ছুক ) He is deaf to my request.
  • Appeal to ( আবেদন করা (ব্যক্তি) ) He appealed to the Headmaster for pardon.
  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.

Idioms:

  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • Stick to ( দৃঢ়ভাবে লেগে থাকা ) He sticks to his decision.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Cock and bull story ( গাঁজাখুরি গল্প ) Nobody will believe your cock and bull story
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.