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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Sanguine of ( নিশ্চিত ) She is sanguine of her success.
  • Liable to ( দায়ী ) He is liable to fine for his misconduct.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • Heart and soul ( সর্বান্তঃকরণে ) Try heard and soul and you will succeed.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )
  • 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.