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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Mourn for ( শোক করা ) Don't mourn for the dead.
  • Add to ( যোগ করা ) Add this to that.
  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Opposite to ( বিপরীত ) Your idea is opposite to mine.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Respect to ( সম্বন্ধে ) We are talking with respect to that matter.

Idioms:

  • Kith and kin ( নিকট আত্মীয় ) He has no good relationship with his kith and kin.
  • In lieu of ( পরিবর্তে ) Give me this pen in lieu of that.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • By and by ( শীঘ্র ) He will come here by and by.
  • reinvent the wheel ( এমন কোনকিছু তৈরিতে সময় নষ্ট করা যা বর্তমানে বিদ্যমান ও ঠিকঠাক কাজ করে ) There's no point in us reinventing the wheel
  • A slow coach ( কর্মকুণ্ঠ ও মন্থর ব্যাক্তি ) Roky is known as a slow coach to his friend circle.