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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Blind of ( দৃষ্টিশক্তিতে অন্ধ ) He is blind of one eye.
  • Avail of ( সুযোগ গ্রহণ করা ) You must avail yourself of the business.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Offensive to ( বিরক্তিকর ) This acrid smell is offensive to me.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Apple of discord ( বিবাদেয় বিষয় ) The paternal property has become an apple of discord between the two brothers.
  • feather ones nest ( কাজ গুছিয়ে নেওয়া )
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.