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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Lacking in ( অভাব আছে এমন ) He is lacking in courage.
  • Vary from ( আলাদা হওয়া ) His opinion varies from his brother's.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Dedicate to ( উৎসর্গ করা ) This book is dedicated to his father.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Allot to ( বিলি করা ) One room has been allotted to him.

Idioms:

  • put the cart before the horse ( স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা উলটাইয়া দেওয়া ; অস্বাভাবিক অবস্থা পরিণত করা )
  • ABC ( প্রাথমিক জ্ঞান ) Everybody must know at least the ABC of religion.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.