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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Divide between ( ভাগ করা (দুটি বা দুজন) ) Divide the apple between Raqib and Shafique.
  • Displeased at ( অসন্তুষ্ট ) I am displeased with him at his conduct.
  • Retire from ( অবসর লওয়া ) He retired from service on a pension.
  • Compete for ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন কিছু) ) He competed for the first position.
  • Insist on ( জিদ করা ) He insisted on my going home.
  • Prohibit from ( বারণ করা ) I prohibited him from going there.

Idioms:

  • At least ( অন্ততঃ ) At least one hundred boys will come to school today.
  • put a spoke to ones wheel ( কারও উন্নতিতে বাধা হওয়া )
  • Bird of a feather ( এক রকম স্বভাবের লোক ) Birds of a feather flock together.
  • At one’s own sweet will ( খুশি মতো ) He still does it at his own sweet will.
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.