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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Jump at ( আগ্রহ সহকারে গ্রহণ করা ) Do not jump at the offer.
  • Quick at ( চটপটে ) He is quick at figures.
  • Partiality for ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He has no Partiality for his son.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Desire for ( ইচ্ছা ) He has no desire for fame.
  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.

Idioms:

  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • As if ( যেন ) He swims so beautifully as if he is the Olympic gold medalist.