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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Comply with ( মেনে নেওয়া ) I shall comply with your request.
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Wish for ( আকাঙ্খা করা ) I do not wish for name and fame.
  • Aim at ( লক্ষ্য করা ) He aimed his gun at he bird.
  • Rejoice at ( আনন্দ করা ) Every one rejoiced at her success.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • From A to Z ( প্রথম হইতে শেষ পয্র্ন্ত ) The statement is true from A to Z.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.