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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Talk to ( কথা বলা (ব্যক্তি) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.
  • Differ from ( ভিন্নরূপ হওয়া ) This thing differs from that.
  • Yield to ( আত্মসমর্পণ করা ) He Yielded to his enemy.
  • Distinguish between ( প্রভেদ করা ) Distinguish between a phrase and a clause.

Idioms:

  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Bag and baggage ( তল্পিতল্পাসহ ) He left the place bag and baggage.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.
  • a piece of cake ( খুবই সহজ ) This assignment is a piece of cake
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.