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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Abound in ( প্রচুর পরিমাণে থাকা ) Fish abounds in this river.
  • Wanting in ( বিহীন ) He is wanting in common sense.
  • Callous to ( উদাসীন ) He is callous to my suffering.
  • Crave for ( আকাঙ্খা করা ) He craves for wealth.
  • Useful to ( প্রয়োজনীয় (ব্যক্তি) ) This book is useful to us for examination.

Idioms:

  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • reap the harvest of sin ( কর্ম ভোগ করা )
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • By hook or by crook ( যে কোন উপায়ে ) You must do this work by hook or by crook.