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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Hope for ( আশা করা ) Let us hope for the best.
  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Bent on ( ঝোঁক ) He is bent on playing cricket.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Key to ( সমাধানের উপায় ) He has found out the key to his problem.

Idioms:

  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.