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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Consist of ( গঠিত হওয়া ) This class consists of fifty boys and thirty girls.
  • Eligible for ( যোগ্য ) He is eligible for the post.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Blind to ( দোষের প্রতি অন্ধ ) He is blind to his won faults.
  • Pride on ( গর্ব করা ) He prides himself on his high birth.
  • Essential to ( অত্যাবশ্যক ) Food is essential to health.

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • In no time ( শীঘ্র ) He will finish the work in no time.