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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Guess at ( অনুমান করা ) Can you guess at her age?
  • Deal in ( ব্যবসা করা ) He deals in rice.
  • Provide against ( পূর্বে ব্যবস্থা করা ; সরবরাহ করা ) You must provide against evil days for your children.
  • Excel in ( তুলনামূলক ভাবে সুন্দর হওয়া ) He excels in painting.
  • Retire from ( অবসর লওয়া ) He retired from service on a pension.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.
  • to the bad ( মন্দাবস্থায় ; ঘাটতি অবস্থায় )
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.