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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Feel for ( সহানুভূতি অনুভব করা ) I feel for you in your trouble.
  • Make out ( বুঝতে পারা ) I cannot make out what you say.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Count for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) His advice counts for nothing.
  • Sentence to ( দন্ডাদেশ দেওয়া ) He was sentenced to death for murder.
  • Favour with ( অনুগত করা ) Would you favour me with an early reply?

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • be bad at ( দক্ষ না হওয়া )
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.
  • Take to one's heels ( ছুটিয়া পালানো ) The thieves took to their heels to see the police.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.