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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.
  • Fatal to ( মারাত্মক ) he doctor's mistake proved fatal to his life.
  • Afraid of ( ভীত ) I am not afraid of ghosts.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.

Idioms:

  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.
  • tickled pink ( খুব খুশি করানো ) She was tickled pink by the good news.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • On the contrary ( বিপরীত পক্ষে ) I do not hate him: on the contrary I love him.