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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Capacity for ( যোগ্যতা ) He has a capacity for hard work.
  • Take after ( সদৃশ হওয়া ) The boy takes after his father.
  • Count for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) His advice counts for nothing.
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Devoid of ( বর্জিত ) He is devoid of common sense.
  • Laugh at ( বিদ্রুপ করা ) Do not taught at the poor.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • Flesh and blood ( রক্তমাংসের শরীর ) Flesh and blood cannot bear with such insults.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • By leaps and bounds ( অতি দ্রুতগতিতে ) The population of Bangladesh is increasing by leaps and bounds.