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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Partial to ( পক্ষপাত দুষ্ট ) He is partial to his son.
  • Rejoice in ( আনন্দ করা ) Every one rejoiced in her success.
  • Mourn over ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn over the dead.
  • Kind of ( প্রকার ) What kind of paper is it?
  • Favourable to ( অনুকূল (ব্যক্তি) ) This situation is favourable to me for doing this.
  • Similar to ( সদৃশ ) This pen is similar to that.

Idioms:

  • On the spur of the moment ( মুহুর্তের উত্তেজনায় ) He did it on the spur of the moment.
  • At dagger drawn ( খড়গহস্ত ) The two brothers are now at daggers drawn.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Bosom friend ( অন্তরঙ্গ বন্ধু ) Rifat is my bosom friend.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.