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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Congratulate on ( অভিনন্দিত করা ) I congratulate you on your success.
  • Polite in ( নম্র ) He is polite in his manners. (Polite to strangers).
  • Lame of ( খোঁড়া ) He is lame of one leg.
  • Die by ( মারা যাওয়া (বিষ) ) He died by poison.
  • Believe in ( বিশ্বাস করা ) I do not believe in his honesty.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Moot point ( অমীমাংসিত বিষয় ) Dowry system is still a moot point in Bangladesh.
  • At a loss ( হতবু্দ্ধি ; কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় ) He was at a loss and did not know what to do.
  • At once back and call ( বাধ্য ) He is always at my back and call.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • Nip in the bud ( অঙ্কুরে বিনষ্ট করা ) All his hopes were nipped in the bud.