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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Grateful to ( কৃতজ্ঞ (ব্যক্তি) ) I am grateful to you for your help.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Jealous of ( ঈর্ষা পরায়ণ ) I am not at all jealous of his fortune.
  • Devote to ( উৎসর্গ করা ) He devotes much time to study.
  • Oblige to ( বাধিত করা ) I am obliged to him for his co-operation.
  • Callous to ( উদাসীন ) He is callous to my suffering.

Idioms:

  • Nip in the bud ( অঙ্কুরে বিনষ্ট করা ) All his hopes were nipped in the bud.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • Gala Day ( উৎসবের দিন ) The 15th August is a gala day to the Indians.