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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Suffer from ( কষ্ট পাওয়া ) He is suffering from fever.
  • Favour with ( অনুগত করা ) Would you favour me with an early reply?
  • Based on ( ভিত্তি থাকা ) Your remarks were not based on the facts.
  • Late in ( দেরি ) Why are you so late in coming?
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Look up ( শব্দার্থ খোঁজা ) Look up the word in the dictionary.

Idioms:

  • At bay ( কোনঠাসা ) The tiger was at bay in the bush.
  • big cheese ( দলের বা পরিবারের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি ) He is the big cheese who control everything in our group.
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • till the cows come home ( অনেক সময় ধরে ) I could play outside till the cows come home
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.
  • In lieu of ( পরিবর্তে ) Give me this pen in lieu of that.