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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Argue with ( যূক্তি দেখানো (ব্যক্তি) ) I argued with him for the point.
  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Persist in ( লেগে থাকা ) He persisted in disturbing me.
  • Useful to ( প্রয়োজনীয় (ব্যক্তি) ) This book is useful to us for examination.
  • Remedy for ( প্রতিকার ) There is no remedy for this disease.

Idioms:

  • By no means ( কোন ভাবেই না ) I shall by no means call on him.
  • At one’s wit’s end ( হতবুদ্ধি ) He was at his wit’s end and did not know what to do.
  • In fine ( পরিশেষ ) In fine he declared his plan.
  • Null and void ( বাতিল ) The deed has been null and void now.
  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • By the by ( প্রসঙ্গক্রমে ) By the by I came to know that he was ill.