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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pass away ( মারা যাওয়া ) He passes away last night.
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Ashamed of ( লজ্জিত ) He is not ashamed of his conduct.
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Impose on ( চাপানো ) The task was imposed on him.

Idioms:

  • In a fix ( মুশকিলে পতিত ) He is in a fix and does not know what to do.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?
  • In a hurry ( তাড়াহুড়ার মধ্যে ) Don't do the work in a hurry.
  • 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.