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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Guess at ( অনুমান করা ) Can you guess at her age?
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.
  • Suffer from ( কষ্ট পাওয়া ) He is suffering from fever.
  • Preferable to ( অধিক পছন্দযোগ্য ) Death is preferable to dishonor.
  • Devote to ( উৎসর্গ করা ) He devotes much time to study.

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.