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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Send for ( ডেকে পাঠানো ) Send for a doctor immediately.
  • Prevent from ( বারণ করা ; প্রতিরোধ করা ) I prevented him from going there.‌
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Lay by ( সঞ্চয় করা ) Lay by something for the old age.
  • Pity for ( করুণা ) Have pity for the poor.
  • Angry at ( রাগান্বিত (কারো আচরণ) ) I am angry at your conduct.

Idioms:

  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.
  • By leaps and bounds ( অতি দ্রুতগতিতে ) The population of Bangladesh is increasing by leaps and bounds.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.