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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Unite with ( ঐক্যবদ্ধ হওয়া ) Be united with your friends.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Annoyed for ( বিরক্ত (কোন কিছু) ) I was annoyed for the music.

Idioms:

  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • Household word ( সকলের পরিচিত নাম ) Mother Teresa's name has now become a household word.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • On the spur of the moment ( মুহুর্তের উত্তেজনায় ) He did it on the spur of the moment.