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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Trust to ( বিশ্বাস করা (ব্যক্তি) ) You may trust the work to me.
  • Faith with ( বিশ্বাস (ভঙ্গ) ) He broke faith with me.
  • Argue for ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him for the point.
  • Useful for ( প্রয়োজনীয় (উদ্দেশ্য) ) This book is useful to us for examination.

Idioms:

  • At a loss ( হতবু্দ্ধি ; কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় ) He was at a loss and did not know what to do.
  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.
  • pulling your leg ( কৌতক করা ) Do not take it seriously, i was just pulling you leg
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.