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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pleased with ( সন্তুষ্ট ) I am pleased with him.
  • Absorbed in ( নিবিষ্ট ; মগ্ন ) Scientist is absorbed in experiment
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.
  • Equal to ( সমতুল্য (কাজ) ) He rose equal to the occasion.
  • Divide among ( ভাগ করা (দুইয়ের অধিক) ) Divide the mangoes among the boys.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.

Idioms:

  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • Round the clock ( সমস্ত দিন ) He is working round the clock.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.