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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Junior to ( নিম্নপদস্থ ; বয়সে কম ) He is junior to me in service.
  • Prior to ( পূর্বে ) Prior to that, he was in a wretched condition.
  • Inferior to ( নিকৃষ্ট ; হীন ) He is inferior to his neighbour.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Occur to ( মনে হওয়া ) The idea never occurred to me.
  • Limit to ( সীমা ) You should have a limit to your demands.

Idioms:

  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.