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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.
  • Faith with ( বিশ্বাস (ভঙ্গ) ) He broke faith with me.
  • Tide over ( অতিক্রম করা ) He will soon tide over the difficulty.
  • Conscious of ( সচেতন ) He is conscious of his weakness.
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.

Idioms:

  • bad faith ( বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা )
  • 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.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • a piece of cake ( খুবই সহজ ) This assignment is a piece of cake
  • 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
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.