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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Hunger for ( তীব্র আকাঙ্খা ) His hunger for knowledge surprised us.
  • Access to ( প্রবেশ অধিকার ) Public has no access to this area.
  • Weary of ( ক্লান্ত ) He is weary of hard life.
  • Senior to ( বয়সে বড়, উচ্চপদস্থ ) He is senior to me by four years.
  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Differ from ( ভিন্নরূপ হওয়া ) This thing differs from that.

Idioms:

  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • Red letter day ( স্মরণীয় দিন ) The 21 February is a red letter day in the history of Bangladesh.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.