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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Jealous of ( ঈর্ষা পরায়ণ ) I am not at all jealous of his fortune.
  • Want of ( অভাব ) We have no want of money.
  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Offend against ( লঙ্গন করা ) You have offended against good manners.
  • Argue against ( যূক্তি দেখানো (কোন কিছু) ) I argued with him against the point.
  • Restore to ( ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া ) Restore his property to him.

Idioms:

  • As it were ( যেন ) The sun is, as it were , the lamp of the universe.
  • Lion's share ( সিংহভাগ ) He took the lion's share of the profit.
  • Crying need ( জরুরী প্রয়োজন ) Mass education is the crying need of Bangladesh.
  • At all ( আদৌ ) He does not know French at all.
  • Bad blood ( মনোমালিন্য ; শত্রতা ; দ্বেষ ) Now there is bad blood between the two brothers.
  • Dead of night ( মধ্য রাত্রি ) The robbers broke into the house at dead of night.