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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Take after ( সদৃশ হওয়া ) The boy takes after his father.
  • Acquit of ( খালাস দেওয়া ) High court acquit him of the charge.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.
  • Acquainted with ( পরিচিত ) I am acquainted with her.

Idioms:

  • loose cannon ( অপ্রত্যাশিত ) He is a bit of a loose cannon.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • a piece of cake ( খুবই সহজ ) This assignment is a piece of cake
  • Turn over a new leaf ( নূতনের সূচনা ) After his failure he turned over a new leaf.
  • Achilles heel ( দুর্বলতা বা ত্রুটি ) He is trying to hide but everybody knows his achilles' heel
  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.