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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Complain to ( অভিযোগ করা (ব্যক্তি) ) The complained to the Director against the Manager about her behavior.
  • Inferior to ( নিকৃষ্ট ; হীন ) He is inferior to his neighbour.
  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.
  • Overcome by ( দমন করা ) He was overcome by anger.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.

Idioms:

  • In time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) He reached the station in time.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.