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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Useful for ( প্রয়োজনীয় (উদ্দেশ্য) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Bent on ( ঝোঁক ) He is bent on playing cricket.
  • Confident of ( স্থির বিশ্বাসী ) I am confident of success.

Idioms:

  • Carry the day ( জয়লাভ করা ) Rajib, the best player of the school, carried the day in the annual sports.
  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • Hard and fast ( বাঁধা ধরা ) There is no such hard and fast rule in this matter.
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.