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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Accompanied with ( একসঙ্গে ঘটা ) He has fever accompanied with headache.
  • Live by ( কোন উপায়ে বেঁচে থাকা ) He lives by honest means.
  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.
  • Prior to ( পূর্বে ) Prior to that, he was in a wretched condition.

Idioms:

  • Out of temper ( ক্রুদ্ধ ) He is out of temper now.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • Bed of roses ( আরামদায়ক অবস্থা ) Life is not a bed of roses.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush