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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Aptitude for ( স্বাভাবিক দক্ষতা ) I have no aptitude for Mathematics.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Made of ( তৈরি ) This ring is made of gold.
  • Sentence to ( দন্ডাদেশ দেওয়া ) He was sentenced to death for murder.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.

Idioms:

  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • Hard nut to crack ( কঠিন সমস্যা ) The problem of adult education is really a hard nut to crack.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • Out of the wood ( বিপদমুক্ত ) He is not yet out of the wood.
  • Black sheep ( কুলাঙ্গার ) He is a black sheep in his family.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )