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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Overcome with ( দমন করা ) He was overcome with fatigue.
  • Contribute to ( দান হিসাবে দেওয়া ) He contributed one thousand taka to the Flood Relief Fund.
  • Faith in ( বিশ্বাস ) I have no faith in him.
  • Divide into ( বিভক্ত করা (অংশ) ) It was divided into several parts.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.

Idioms:

  • bell the cat ( সর্তকতার জন্য বিড়ালের গলায় ঘন্টা বাধা ; কোন কাজ যেটা অর্জন করা কঠিন বা অসম্ভব ) Everybody is trying but who actually bell the cat?
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • In no time ( শীঘ্র ) He will finish the work in no time.
  • Come off with flying colours ( জয়লাভ করা ) Our School team came off with flying colours.