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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Appetite for ( ক্ষুধা ) The patient has no appetite for food.
  • Alternative to ( বিকল্প ) This question is alternative to that.
  • Jump to ( তাড়াহুড়ো করে সিদ্ধান্তে আসা ) Do not jump to a conclusion without much thinking.
  • Believe in ( বিশ্বাস করা ) I do not believe in his honesty.
  • Opportunity for ( সুযোগ ) I have no opportunity for (of) doing the work.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • Out of sorts ( ঈষৎ অসুস্থ ) He is out of sorts now.
  • bunch of fives ( মুষ্টি ; পাঁচ আঙ্গুলের মুঠো ) Rock can break anything with his bunch of fives.
  • Pros and cons ( খুঁটিনাটি ) You should consider the Pros and cons of the system.
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.