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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Restrict to ( সীমাবব্ধ করা ) Admission was restricted to students.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Opportunity for ( সুযোগ ) I have no opportunity for (of) doing the work.
  • Pity for ( করুণা ) Have pity for the poor.
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.

Idioms:

  • At home ( দক্ষ ) He is at home in mathematics.
  • Carry the day ( জয়লাভ করা ) Rajib, the best player of the school, carried the day in the annual sports.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.