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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Die in ( মারা যাওয়া (শান্তি) ) Let me die in peace.
  • Wish for ( আকাঙ্খা করা ) I do not wish for name and fame.
  • Plead with ( ওকালতি করা (ব্যক্তি) ) I pleaded with him for justice.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.

Idioms:

  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • word of no implication ( কথার কথা )
  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • At home ( দক্ষ ) He is at home in mathematics.