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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Faith in ( বিশ্বাস ) I have no faith in him.
  • Greed for ( লোভ ) He has no greed for wealth.
  • Sensible of ( বোধ সম্পন্ন ) She is sensible of the risk.
  • Deaf of ( বধির ) He is deaf of one ear.

Idioms:

  • In the long run ( পরিশেষে ) You will have to suffer in the long run.
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.