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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.
  • Marry to ( বিবাহ দেওয়া ) He married his daughter to a rich man.
  • Oblige to ( বাধিত করা ) I am obliged to him for his co-operation.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • bad debts ( অশোধ্য বা অনাদায়ী ঋন ; যে ঋন শোধ করা যাবে না )
  • Call a spade a spade ( অপ্রিয় সত্য কথা বলা ) I have no hesitation to call a spade a spade.
  • the exact point ( কাঁটায়-কাঁটায় )
  • Now and then ( মাঝে মাঝে ) He comes here now and then.