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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Remedy for ( প্রতিকার ) There is no remedy for this disease.
  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Justice to ( ন্যায় বিচার ) We should do justice to everybody.
  • Quick at ( চটপটে ) He is quick at figures.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.

Idioms:

  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • Above all ( প্রধানত ; সর্বোপরি ) We should be kind, polite, and above all honest.
  • put the cart before the horse ( স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা উলটাইয়া দেওয়া ; অস্বাভাবিক অবস্থা পরিণত করা )
  • On the spur of the moment ( মুহুর্তের উত্তেজনায় ) He did it on the spur of the moment.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.