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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wonder at ( অবাক হওয়া ) I wonder at his ignorance.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Agree to ( একমত হওয়া (প্রস্তাব) ) I can't agree to the proposals.
  • Capable to ( সক্ষম ) He is capable of doing this alone.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).

Idioms:

  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • Bosom friend ( অন্তরঙ্গ বন্ধু ) Rifat is my bosom friend.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • At a loss ( হতবু্দ্ধি ; কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় ) He was at a loss and did not know what to do.
  • Come to light ( প্রকাশিত হওয়া ) Their private talk has come to light at last.