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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Arrive at ( পৌঁছানো ) We arrived at the station in time.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Senior to ( বয়সে বড়, উচ্চপদস্থ ) He is senior to me by four years.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.

Idioms:

  • Fish out of water ( অস্বস্তিকর অবস্থায় ) When he came to the village, he felt like a fish out of water.
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • Fall flat ( ফলপ্রসূ না হওয়া ) My advice feel fiat on him.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • By leaps and bounds ( অতি দ্রুতগতিতে ) The population of Bangladesh is increasing by leaps and bounds.