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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Diffident of ( সন্দিগ্ধ ) I am diffident of success.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Aim at ( লক্ষ্য করা ) He aimed his gun at he bird.
  • Resign to ( আত্মসমর্পন করা (স্বয়ং) ) I resigned myself to fate
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Due to ( কারণে ) His absence is due to illness.

Idioms:

  • Red tape ( লাল ফিতার বাঁধন ; আমলাতান্ত্রিকতা ) Red tapism causes delay in official work.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • Widow's mite ( দরিদ্রর ক্ষুদ্র দান ) A widow's mite is no less important than a large contribution of a rich man.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • At a low ebb ( নিম্নমুখী ) His fame is at a low ebb now.
  • In order to ( উদ্দেশ্য ) He came here in order to meet my mother.