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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Send for ( ডেকে পাঠানো ) Send for a doctor immediately.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Offended with ( বিরক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) I am offended with you at your conduct.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Difference between ( পার্থক্য ) There is no difference between the two brothers.
  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.

Idioms:

  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • At arm’s length ( দূরে ) Try to keep the bad boy at arm’s length.
  • Fall flat ( ফলপ্রসূ না হওয়া ) My advice feel fiat on him.
  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.