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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Look after ( দেখাশোনা করা ) There is none to look after her.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Apply for ( আবেদন করা (কোন কিছু) ) He applied to the Secretary for the post.
  • Live within ( বাঁচা ) He live within his means
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Die of ( মারা যাওয়া (রোগ) ) He died of cholera.

Idioms:

  • a bad apple ( কোনো একটা দলের সব ভালোর মধ্যে খারাপ বা মন্দটা ) In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few bad apples.
  • All on a sudden ( হঠাৎ ) All on a sudden a tiger came out of the bush.
  • Flesh and blood ( রক্তমাংসের শরীর ) Flesh and blood cannot bear with such insults.
  • By far ( সর্বাংশে ) He is by far the best boy in the class.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )