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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Favourable to ( অনুকূল (ব্যক্তি) ) This situation is favourable to me for doing this.
  • Occupied in ( নিয়োজিত ) He is occupied in writing a letter.
  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.
  • Callous to ( উদাসীন ) He is callous to my suffering.

Idioms:

  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • In full swing ( পুরাদমে ) The school is now in full swing.
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • bad shoot ( অসংগত অনুমান )
  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.