"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.
  • Subject to ( শর্তাধীন ) This is subject to approval of the committee.
  • Made of ( তৈরি ) This ring is made of gold.
  • Capable to ( সক্ষম ) He is capable of doing this alone.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Mourn for ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn for the dead.

Idioms:

  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • ABC ( প্রাথমিক জ্ঞান ) Everybody must know at least the ABC of religion.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Out of the wood ( বিপদমুক্ত ) He is not yet out of the wood.