"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.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Pass for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) He passes for a clever man.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.

Idioms:

  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • Nip in the bud ( অঙ্কুরে বিনষ্ট করা ) All his hopes were nipped in the bud.
  • As usual ( যথারীতি ) He is late as usual.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • For good ( চিরকালের জন্য ) He left the country for good.
  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.