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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Ignorant of ( অজ্ঞ ) He is ignorant of this rule.
  • Contribute to ( দান হিসাবে দেওয়া ) He contributed one thousand taka to the Flood Relief Fund.
  • in favour of ( পক্ষে ) He spoke in favour of his friend.
  • Useful for ( প্রয়োজনীয় (উদ্দেশ্য) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Disgusted with ( বিরক্ত ) I am disgusted with him at his conduct.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.

Idioms:

  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Part and parcel ( অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ ) Discipline is part and parcel of administration.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • A rainy day ( দুর্দিন ) Everybody should save something for rainy day.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.