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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Dedicate to ( উৎসর্গ করা ) This book is dedicated to his father.
  • Alarmed at ( আতঙ্কিত ) We were alarmed at he news.
  • Think of ( চিন্তা করা (ব্যক্তি) ) What do you think of (about) him?
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Tide over ( অতিক্রম করা ) He will soon tide over the difficulty.

Idioms:

  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • By all means ( সবর্প্রকার ) Try to do it by all means.
  • bad faith ( বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা )
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Hold water ( ধোপে টেকা ; কার্যকরি হওয়া ) This policy will not hold water in this situation.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.