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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.
  • Hard at ( উদ্যমী ) He is hard at work before examination.
  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Plead for ( ওকালতি করা (কোনকিছু) ) I pleaded with him for justice (against the wrong done to me).
  • Wait on ( সেবা করা ) The nurse waited on the patient.

Idioms:

  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • harp on the same string ( এক কথা বারবার বলা )
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • Part and parcel ( অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ ) Discipline is part and parcel of administration.