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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Sensitive to ( সংবেদনশীল ) She is sensitive to cold.
  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.
  • Confident to ( আবদ্ধ (শয্যা) ) He is confined to bed.
  • Aim at ( লক্ষ্য করা ) He aimed his gun at he bird.
  • Equal to ( সমতুল্য (কাজ) ) He rose equal to the occasion.

Idioms:

  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )