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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Famous for ( বিখ্যাত ) Radhanager is famous for the birth place of Raja Rammohan.
  • Escape from ( পলায়ন করা ) The prisoner escaped from the jail.
  • Taste for ( রুচি ) She has no taste for music.
  • Confined in ( আবদ্ধ (কক্ষ) ) He is confined in a room for five days.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Divide into ( বিভক্ত করা (অংশ) ) It was divided into several parts.

Idioms:

  • Carry the day ( জয়লাভ করা ) Rajib, the best player of the school, carried the day in the annual sports.
  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • Dead against ( তীব্র বিরোধী ) I am dead against his proposal.
  • live by ones wit ( কথা বেচে খাওয়া )
  • Do yeoman's service ( বিশেষ উপকার করা ) Raja Rammohan Roy has done yeoman's service to our country.
  • Three R's ( প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা ) The majority of our people have not yet learnt the three R's.