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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Parallel to ( সমান্তরাল ) This line is parallel to that.
  • Encroach on ( অনধিকার প্রবেশ করা ) Do not encroach on my land.
  • Close to ( নিকটে ) The school is very close to our house.
  • Restore to ( ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া ) Restore his property to him.
  • Ill with ( অসুস্থ ) He is ill with fever.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.

Idioms:

  • Take to one's heels ( ছুটিয়া পালানো ) The thieves took to their heels to see the police.
  • In a nut shell ( খুব সংক্ষেপে ) Tell the story in a nut shell.
  • Hush money ( ঘুষ ) He offered a hush money to suppress the murder.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • In vogue ( চালু ) This custom is not in vogue now.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.