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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Agree with ( একমত হওয়া (ব্যক্তি) ) I agree with you on this point
  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.
  • Vain of ( অহঙ্কারী ) She is vain of her beauty.
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Mad with ( উন্মাদ প্রায় ) He is mad with pain.

Idioms:

  • At one’s own sweet will ( খুশি মতো ) He still does it at his own sweet will.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.