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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Object to ( আপত্তি করা ) He objected to my proposal.
  • Look at ( তাকানো ) Look at the moon.
  • Excuse for ( অব্যাহতি দেওয়া ) He will not be excused for coming late.
  • Contribute to ( দান হিসাবে দেওয়া ) He contributed one thousand taka to the Flood Relief Fund.
  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.

Idioms:

  • Chip of the old block ( বাপকা বেটা ) He is a chip of the old black.
  • In a fix ( মুশকিলে পতিত ) He is in a fix and does not know what to do.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.