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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Differ from ( ভিন্নরূপ হওয়া ) This thing differs from that.
  • Sensible of ( বোধ সম্পন্ন ) She is sensible of the risk.
  • Abound in ( প্রচুর পরিমাণে থাকা ) Fish abounds in this river.
  • Inquire of ( অনুসন্ধান করা (ব্যক্তি) ) I inquired of him about the matter.
  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Guilty of ( দোষী ) He is guilty of murder.

Idioms:

  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Rank and file ( সাধারণ লোক ) We should pay attention to the rank and file of the country.
  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.