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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Provide against ( পূর্বে ব্যবস্থা করা ; সরবরাহ করা ) You must provide against evil days for your children.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Angry for ( রাগান্বিত (কোন কিছু) ) I am angry for something.
  • Engaged in ( নিযুক্ত (কাজে) ) I was engaged with him in talk.
  • Devoid of ( বর্জিত ) He is devoid of common sense.

Idioms:

  • big cheese ( দলের বা পরিবারের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি ) He is the big cheese who control everything in our group.
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.
  • Fish in a troubled water ( এলোমোলো অবস্থায় সুযোগ নেওয়া ) He made a lot of money by fishing in a troubled water.
  • In vain ( বৃথা ) All his attempts were in vain.
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.