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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Smile on ( অনুগ্রহ করা ) Fortune smiled on him.
  • Equal to ( সমতুল্য (কাজ) ) He rose equal to the occasion.
  • Lay by ( সঞ্চয় করা ) Lay by something for the old age.
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Guilty of ( দোষী ) He is guilty of murder.
  • Occupied with ( নিয়োজিত (কাজ) ) He is occupied with his studies.

Idioms:

  • a piece of cake ( খুবই সহজ ) This assignment is a piece of cake
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.