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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Distinguish between ( প্রভেদ করা ) Distinguish between a phrase and a clause.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.
  • Rejoice in ( আনন্দ করা ) Every one rejoiced in her success.
  • Die by ( মারা যাওয়া (বিষ) ) He died by poison.
  • Lame of ( খোঁড়া ) He is lame of one leg.
  • Good at ( দক্ষ ) He is good at tennis.

Idioms:

  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Red letter day ( স্মরণীয় দিন ) The 21 February is a red letter day in the history of Bangladesh.
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.