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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Care of ( যত্ন নেওয়া ) Take care of your health.
  • Control over ( নিয়ন্ত্রণ ) He has no control over his brother.
  • Deaf of ( বধির ) He is deaf of one ear.
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.
  • Free from ( মুক্ত ) He is now free from danger.
  • Favourable to ( অনুকূল (ব্যক্তি) ) This situation is favourable to me for doing this.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • harp on the same string ( এক কথা বারবার বলা )
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.