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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Eager for ( আগ্রহী ) He is eager for promotion in service.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.
  • Prefer to ( অধিক পছন্দ করা ) I prefer coffee to tea.
  • Busy with ( ব্যস্ত ) He is busy with his studies.
  • Rob of ( অপহরণ করা ) Somebody robbed him of his purse.

Idioms:

  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • keep your chin up ( সুখি হওয়া ) His attempt keep your chin up
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • feather ones nest ( কাজ গুছিয়ে নেওয়া )