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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Favour with ( অনুগত করা ) Would you favour me with an early reply?
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Eager about ( আগ্রহী ) He is eager about the result.
  • Greed for ( লোভ ) He has no greed for wealth.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • Get rid of ( মুক্তি পাওয়া ) Try to get rid of that rogue.
  • Through thick and thin ( বাধা বিপত্তির মধ্য দিয়ে ) Reveka followed her husband through thick and thin.
  • Head and ears ( সম্পূর্ণরূপে ) He is over head and ears in debt.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.
  • To and fro ( এদিন-ওদিক ) Being unable to make up his mind the man is walking to and fro.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )