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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Succeed in ( সাফল্য লাভ করা ) He will succeed in life.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Fond of ( অনুরাগী ) Children are fond of sweets.

Idioms:

  • hold your horses ( সবুর করা ; ধৈর্য ধরা ) Hold your horses in trouble, you will get your reward.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • Flesh and blood ( রক্তমাংসের শরীর ) Flesh and blood cannot bear with such insults.
  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.