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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Good at ( দক্ষ ) He is good at tennis.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • cringing flatterer ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • vile sycophant ( খঁয়ের খা )
  • In fine ( পরিশেষ ) In fine he declared his plan.