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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Favour with ( অনুগত করা ) Would you favour me with an early reply?
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Overcome by ( দমন করা ) He was overcome by anger.

Idioms:

  • be up and doing ( উঠে-পড়ে লাগা )
  • By far ( সর্বাংশে ) He is by far the best boy in the class.
  • As if ( যেন ) He swims so beautifully as if he is the Olympic gold medalist.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.