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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wonder at ( অবাক হওয়া ) I wonder at his ignorance.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Lame of ( খোঁড়া ) He is lame of one leg.
  • Yield to ( আত্মসমর্পণ করা ) He Yielded to his enemy.
  • Busy with ( ব্যস্ত ) He is busy with his studies.
  • Require of ( প্রয়োজন হওয়া (কোন কিছু) ) I required a loan of him.

Idioms:

  • a rotten apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few rotten apples.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • bad shoot ( অসংগত অনুমান )
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.