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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Vexed with ( বিরক্ত (ব্যক্তি) ) He is vexed with me at my conduct.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Search for ( অনুসন্ধান ) Their search for the thing was of no avail.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Annoyed for ( বিরক্ত (কোন কিছু) ) I was annoyed for the music.

Idioms:

  • Cats and dogs ( মূষল ধারে ) It was raining cats and dogs.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • keep your chin up ( সুখি হওয়া ) His attempt keep your chin up
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • have a bad time ( দুশ্চিন্তায় কাল কাটানো ; দুঃসময়ে পড়া )