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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.
  • Overcome by ( দমন করা ) He was overcome by anger.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Busy with ( ব্যস্ত ) He is busy with his studies.
  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Slow of ( ধীর ) He is slow of speech. He is slow at figures. He is slow in writing.

Idioms:

  • host in himself ( একাই একশ )
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • By chance ( দৈবাৎ ) I met him on the way by chance.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • harp on the same string ( এক কথা বারবার বলা )
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.