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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Live within ( বাঁচা ) He live within his means
  • Want of ( অভাব ) We have no want of money.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Partial to ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He is partial to his son.

Idioms:

  • In the mean time ( ইতিমধ্যে ) Lila will come here to-night. In the mean time you should get her room ready.
  • Slip of the pen ( লেখায় অসতর্কতাবশতঃ সামান্য ভুল ) This mistake is due to a slip of the pen.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • keep your chin up ( সুখি হওয়া ) His attempt keep your chin up