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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Alarmed at ( আতঙ্কিত ) We were alarmed at he news.
  • End in ( শেষ হওয়া ) All his plans ended in smoke.
  • Divide among ( ভাগ করা (দুইয়ের অধিক) ) Divide the mangoes among the boys.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • Slip of the tongue ( বলায় সামান্য ভুল ) This is a slip of the tongue, don't lay much stress on it.