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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Commence on ( শুরু করা ) Our examination commences on the 3rd July.
  • Prompt at ( চটপটে (ব্যক্তিত্ব) ) He is prompt at figures.
  • Enter into ( প্রবেশ করা ) He entered into the room.
  • Triumph over ( জয় করা ) Jim and Della triumphed over their poverty.
  • Obstacle to ( বাধা ) Poverty is often obstacle to higher studies.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.

Idioms:

  • At last ( অবশেষে ) I got my missing book at last.
  • Take to one's heels ( ছুটিয়া পালানো ) The thieves took to their heels to see the police.
  • To the backbone ( হাড়ে হাড়ে ) The boy is wicked to the backbone.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush
  • under the weather ( ভাল না ; অসুস্থ ) I've been feeling under the weather
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.