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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Dull at ( কাঁচা ) He is dull at Physics.
  • Adjacent to ( সংলগ্ন ) Her college is adjacent to her house.
  • Dislike for ( অপছন্দ ) He has dislike for dogs.
  • Attend on ( সেবা করা ) She attends on her mother.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.

Idioms:

  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.
  • Make both ends meet ( আয়ব্যয় মেলানো ) I cannot make both ends meet with my small income.
  • In the nick of time ( ঠিক সময়ে ) The school team arrived in the nick of time.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.