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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Comment on ( মন্তব্য করা ) He commented favorably on the point.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Mourn for ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn for the dead.
  • Guess at ( অনুমান করা ) Can you guess at her age?
  • Feel for ( সহানুভূতি অনুভব করা ) I feel for you in your trouble.
  • Fond of ( অনুরাগী ) Children are fond of sweets.

Idioms:

  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • Take to heart ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) He took his remark to heart.
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )
  • On the spur of the moment ( মুহুর্তের উত্তেজনায় ) He did it on the spur of the moment.