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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Lacking in ( অভাব আছে এমন ) He is lacking in courage.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Remedy for ( প্রতিকার ) There is no remedy for this disease.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • In black and white ( লিখিতভাবে ) Put down the statement in black and white.
  • bad debts ( অশোধ্য বা অনাদায়ী ঋন ; যে ঋন শোধ করা যাবে না )
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • Ins and outs ( খুঁটিনাটি সব কিছু ) I know the ins and outs of the matter.