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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Useful to ( প্রয়োজনীয় (ব্যক্তি) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Control over ( নিয়ন্ত্রণ ) He has no control over his brother.
  • Good at ( দক্ষ ) He is good at tennis.
  • Refer to ( বিচারার্থে পাঠানো ) Refer the matter to him for enquiry.
  • Jump at ( আগ্রহ সহকারে গ্রহণ করা ) Do not jump at the offer.
  • Difference between ( পার্থক্য ) There is no difference between the two brothers.

Idioms:

  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • Red tape ( লাল ফিতার বাঁধন ; আমলাতান্ত্রিকতা ) Red tapism causes delay in official work.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • host in himself ( একাই একশ )
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.