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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Impose on ( চাপানো ) The task was imposed on him.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.
  • Acquit of ( খালাস দেওয়া ) High court acquit him of the charge.

Idioms:

  • put the cart before the horse ( স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা উলটাইয়া দেওয়া ; অস্বাভাবিক অবস্থা পরিণত করা )
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • At large ( স্বাধীন ) The anti-socials are still at large.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.