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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Tell upon ( ক্ষতি করা ) Over-eating tells upon health.
  • Capable to ( সক্ষম ) He is capable of doing this alone.
  • Sympathy for ( সহানুভূতি ) I have no sympathy for him.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Smell of ( গন্ধ দেয় ) This glass smells of wine.
  • Pretend to ( ভান করা ) He does not pretend to high birth.

Idioms:

  • In force ( বলবৎ ) This law is in force now.
  • breathe out ( নিঃশ্বাস ত্যাগ করা ) At last, he breathed his last breath out, and that was the end.
  • Set free ( মুক্ত করা ) The prisoners were set free.
  • pound of flesh ( এক চুল এদিক ওদিক নয় )
  • In a nut shell ( খুব সংক্ষেপে ) Tell the story in a nut shell.
  • Above all ( প্রধানত ; সর্বোপরি ) We should be kind, polite, and above all honest.