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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compete with ( প্রতিযোগিতা করা (কোন একজন) ) I competed with him for the first prize.
  • Count upon ( নির্ভর করা ) I count upon your help for this work.
  • Wait for ( অপেক্ষা করা ) I waited for him for two hours.
  • Hard at ( উদ্যমী ) He is hard at work before examination.
  • Rest with ( নির্ভর করা ; বিশ্বাসস্থাপন করা ) The whole matter rests with you.
  • Compare to ( তুলনা করা (অসদৃশ বস্তু) ) Anger is compared to fire.

Idioms:

  • Build castles in the air ( আকাশ কুসুম চিন্তা করা ) Don't idle away your time in building castles in the air.
  • be in ones bad books ( কারও অপ্রিয় হওয়া )
  • All at once ( হঠাৎ ) All at once a tiger came out of the forest.
  • Irony of fate ( ভাগ্যের পরিহাস ) He could not succeed by irony of fate.
  • slap on the wrist ( মৃদু শাস্তি ) Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist
  • in the doldrums ( উদাসীন ভাবাপন্ন )