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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.
  • Ignorant of ( অজ্ঞ ) He is ignorant of this rule.
  • Dispose of ( বিক্রয় করা ) He disposed of his books.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • As usual ( যথারীতি ) He is late as usual.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Bone of contention ( বিবাদের বিষয় ) The paternal property is the bone of contention between the two brothers.
  • On the wane ( হ্রাসমান ) His fame is on the wane now.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.