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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Aloof from ( দূরে থাকা ) Keep yourself aloof from bad company.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Engaged to ( বাগদত্ত ) Lila was engaged to him.
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.
  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.

Idioms:

  • Weal and woe ( সুখ-দুঃখ ) Human life is full of weal and woe.
  • A rainy day ( দুর্দিন ) Everybody should save something for rainy day.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • Red letter day ( স্মরণীয় দিন ) The 21 February is a red letter day in the history of Bangladesh.
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel