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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • End in ( শেষ হওয়া ) All his plans ended in smoke.
  • Abide by ( মেনে চলা ) One should abide by the rules
  • Obsessed by ( উদ্বিগ্ন ) He is obsessed by the idea.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Attend to ( মনোযোগ দেওয়া ) Attend to your lesson.
  • Differ from ( ভিন্নরূপ হওয়া ) This thing differs from that.

Idioms:

  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.