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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pleased at ( সন্তুষ্ট (কোনকিছু) ) I am pleased at the news.
  • Talk to ( কথা বলা (ব্যক্তি) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy.
  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.
  • Preside over ( সভাপতিত্ব করা ) He presided over the meeting.
  • Equal in ( সমতুল্য (পদমর্যদা) ) Mr.Karim is equal in rank with Mr.Rahim.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.

Idioms:

  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.