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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Commence on ( শুরু করা ) Our examination commences on the 3rd July.
  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Blind to ( দোষের প্রতি অন্ধ ) He is blind to his won faults.
  • Desire for ( ইচ্ছা ) He has no desire for fame.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.
  • Guilty of ( দোষী ) He is guilty of murder.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Up and downs ( উন্থানপতন ) There are ups and downs in a man's life.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • To the letter ( অক্ষরে অক্ষরে ) He followed my advice to the letter.
  • To the contrary ( কাহারও বক্তব্যের বিপক্ষে ) In the court he said nothing to the contrary.