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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.
  • Eligible for ( যোগ্য ) He is eligible for the post.
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.

Idioms:

  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • Hold good ( প্রযুক্ত হওয়া ) This ruls will not hold good here.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.