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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Lame of ( খোঁড়া ) He is lame of one leg.
  • Come of ( জন্মগ্রহণ করা ) He comes of a noble family.
  • Invite to ( নিমন্ত্রণ করা ) I invited him to dinner.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.
  • Weary of ( ক্লান্ত ) He is weary of hard life.

Idioms:

  • Bosom friend ( অন্তরঙ্গ বন্ধু ) Rifat is my bosom friend.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Red tape ( লাল ফিতার বাঁধন ; আমলাতান্ত্রিকতা ) Red tapism causes delay in official work.