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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Prefer to ( অধিক পছন্দ করা ) I prefer coffee to tea.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Preside over ( সভাপতিত্ব করা ) He presided over the meeting.
  • Familiar with ( সুপরিচিত ) He is familiar with my brother.
  • Pity for ( করুণা ) Have pity for the poor.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.

Idioms:

  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • At last ( অবশেষে ) I got my missing book at last.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.