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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Care of ( যত্ন নেওয়া ) Take care of your health.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Die by ( মারা যাওয়া (বিষ) ) He died by poison.
  • Trust to ( বিশ্বাস করা (ব্যক্তি) ) You may trust the work to me.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.

Idioms:

  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • Tooth and nail ( তীব্রভাবে ) He fought tooth and nail against his enemy.
  • Big gun ( নেতৃস্থানীয় ব্যক্তি ) He is a big gun of our locality.