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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.
  • Pleased with ( সন্তুষ্ট ) I am pleased with him.
  • Dull at ( কাঁচা ) He is dull at Physics.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.
  • Displeased at ( অসন্তুষ্ট ) I am displeased with him at his conduct.

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Nip in the bud ( অঙ্কুরে বিনষ্ট করা ) All his hopes were nipped in the bud.
  • Curry favour ( তোষামোদ করিয়ে প্রিয় হওয়া ) He knows how to curry favour with officers.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Pros and cons ( খুঁটিনাটি ) You should consider the Pros and cons of the system.