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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • According to ( অনুসারে ) According to his order i went there.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Rest with ( নির্ভর করা ; বিশ্বাসস্থাপন করা ) The whole matter rests with you.
  • Owe to ( ঋণী হওয়া ) I owe my all to him.
  • Confined in ( আবদ্ধ (কক্ষ) ) He is confined in a room for five days.

Idioms:

  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • On the whole ( মোটের উপর ) On the whole, his conduct is good.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • Square meal ( পেট ভরা আহার ) He is too poor to have a square meal every day.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.