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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Exempt from ( রেহাই দেওয়া ) He was exempted from the fine.
  • Send for ( ডেকে পাঠানো ) Send for a doctor immediately.
  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.

Idioms:

  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.