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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Restore to ( ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া ) Restore his property to him.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.
  • Live for ( বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives for fame.
  • Look after ( দেখাশোনা করা ) There is none to look after her.
  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.

Idioms:

  • To the letter ( অক্ষরে অক্ষরে ) He followed my advice to the letter.
  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • 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.
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.