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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Make out ( বুঝতে পারা ) I cannot make out what you say.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Obsessed with ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) He is obsessed with the idea.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.

Idioms:

  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.
  • Nip in the bud ( অঙ্কুরে বিনষ্ট করা ) All his hopes were nipped in the bud.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Take one to task ( তিরস্কার করা ) He was taken to task for negligence of duty.