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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Succeed in ( সাফল্য লাভ করা ) He will succeed in life.
  • Hard of ( কম শোনা ) He is hard of hearing.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Mad with ( উন্মাদ প্রায় ) He is mad with pain.
  • Divide among ( ভাগ করা (দুইয়ের অধিক) ) Divide the mangoes among the boys.
  • Yield to ( আত্মসমর্পণ করা ) He Yielded to his enemy.

Idioms:

  • On the whole ( মোটের উপর ) On the whole, his conduct is good.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.
  • A black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) Tom is a black sheep in their family
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.