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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Allot to ( বিলি করা ) One room has been allotted to him.
  • Accompanied with ( একসঙ্গে ঘটা ) He has fever accompanied with headache.
  • Occupied in ( নিয়োজিত ) He is occupied in writing a letter.
  • Believe in ( বিশ্বাস করা ) I do not believe in his honesty.
  • Offended at ( বিরক্ত (কোন কাজে) ) I am offended with you at your conduct.

Idioms:

  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • know from a bare hint ( এক আঁচরেই বোঝা )