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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Limit to ( সীমা ) You should have a limit to your demands.
  • Invite to ( নিমন্ত্রণ করা ) I invited him to dinner.
  • Look after ( দেখাশোনা করা ) There is none to look after her.
  • Rob of ( অপহরণ করা ) Somebody robbed him of his purse.

Idioms:

  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • Hue and cry ( শোরগোল ) The villagers raised a hue and cry to see the thief.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • queer go ( অদ্ভুত ব্যপার )