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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Cure of ( আরগ্য হওয়া ) He will be cured of the disease very soon.
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Weak in ( কাঁচা ) He is weak in Mathematics.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • vile sycophant ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • Bone of contention ( বিবাদের বিষয় ) The paternal property is the bone of contention between the two brothers.
  • loose cannon ( অপ্রত্যাশিত ) He is a bit of a loose cannon.
  • Gift of the gab ( বাককটুতা ) An advocate should have the gift of the gab.