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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Look for ( খোঁজা ) I am looking for a good job.
  • Prompt at ( চটপটে (ব্যক্তিত্ব) ) He is prompt at figures.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.
  • Talk of ( কথা বলা (কোন জিনিস) ) I am talking to (with) Mr. Roy of (about, over) the matter.

Idioms:

  • breathe out ( নিঃশ্বাস ত্যাগ করা ) At last, he breathed his last breath out, and that was the end.
  • when pigs fly ( কখনও না ) I will help you when pigs fly
  • Dead language ( যে ভাষা এখন আর কথ্য নয় ) Sanskrit is a rich language, but it is now a dead language.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • Lame excuse ( বাজে গুজব ) This lame excuse will to do.