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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Useful to ( প্রয়োজনীয় (ব্যক্তি) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Quick of ( চটপটে ) He is quick of understanding.
  • Respect of ( সম্বন্ধে ) He is junior to me in respect of service.
  • Listen to ( শোনা ) Listen to the news on the radio.
  • Quarrel for ( কলহ করা (কোনকিছু) ) They quarreled with one another for the property.
  • End in ( শেষ হওয়া ) All his plans ended in smoke.

Idioms:

  • Man of letters ( পন্ডিত লোক ) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a man of letters.
  • Red letter day ( স্মরণীয় দিন ) The 21 February is a red letter day in the history of Bangladesh.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • Fall flat ( ফলপ্রসূ না হওয়া ) My advice feel fiat on him.
  • A bed of roses ( সুখ-স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যপূর্ণ জীবন ) Many people think that life is a bed of roses
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.