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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Divide into ( বিভক্ত করা (অংশ) ) It was divided into several parts.
  • Favourable to ( অনুকূল (ব্যক্তি) ) This situation is favourable to me for doing this.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.
  • Vain of ( অহঙ্কারী ) She is vain of her beauty.

Idioms:

  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • In a nut shell ( খুব সংক্ষেপে ) Tell the story in a nut shell.
  • Household word ( সকলের পরিচিত নাম ) Mother Teresa's name has now become a household word.
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • By chance ( দৈবাৎ ) I met him on the way by chance.