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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Die in ( মারা যাওয়া (শান্তি) ) Let me die in peace.
  • True to ( বিশ্বস্ত ) He is true to his master.
  • Destined to ( ভাগ্য নির্দিষ্ট ) He was destined to death.
  • Look over ( পরীক্ষা করা ) He is looking over the answer papers.
  • Impose on ( চাপানো ) The task was imposed on him.

Idioms:

  • By fits and starts ( অনিয়মিত ; মাঝে মাঝে ) He works by fits and starts.
  • Out of the wood ( বিপদমুক্ত ) He is not yet out of the wood.
  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • bad faith ( বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা )
  • Call to mind ( স্মরণ করা ) I cannot call to mind your name.