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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Take after ( সদৃশ হওয়া ) The boy takes after his father.
  • Allot to ( বিলি করা ) One room has been allotted to him.
  • Esteem for ( শ্রদ্ধা ) He has esteem for the superiors.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Ignorant of ( অজ্ঞ ) He is ignorant of this rule.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.

Idioms:

  • Out of doors ( বাহিরে ) It is rather cold out of doors.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • Hard nut to crack ( কঠিন সমস্যা ) The problem of adult education is really a hard nut to crack.
  • In order to ( উদ্দেশ্য ) He came here in order to meet my mother.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.