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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Invite to ( নিমন্ত্রণ করা ) I invited him to dinner.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Restrict to ( সীমাবব্ধ করা ) Admission was restricted to students.
  • Superior to ( উৎকৃষ্টতর ) This type of rice is superior to that.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.

Idioms:

  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • be on ones back ( একেবারে কুপোকাত )
  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • At all events ( যাই ঘটুক সব ক্ষেত্রেই ) I shall stand by him at all events.