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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Encroach on ( অনধিকার প্রবেশ করা ) Do not encroach on my land.
  • Accused of ( অভিযুক্ত ) He is accused of corruption.
  • Loyal to ( বিশ্বস্ত ) He is loyal to his master.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.

Idioms:

  • ABC ( প্রাথমিক জ্ঞান ) Everybody must know at least the ABC of religion.
  • At random ( বেপরোয়া ; এলোমেলো ) He hit the ball at random.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Bosom friend ( অন্তরঙ্গ বন্ধু ) Rifat is my bosom friend.