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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Compare with ( তুলনা করা (সদৃশ বস্তু) ) Rabindranath may be compared with Shakespeare.
  • Succeed in ( সাফল্য লাভ করা ) He will succeed in life.
  • Proportionate to ( আনুপাতিক ) Punishment should be proportionate to offence.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Occupied with ( নিয়োজিত (কাজ) ) He is occupied with his studies.
  • Pleased at ( সন্তুষ্ট (কোনকিছু) ) I am pleased at the news.

Idioms:

  • At a stretch ( একটানা ) He can run ten miles at a stretch.
  • At the eleventh hour ( শেষ মুহূর্তে ) he doctor came to the patient at the eleventh hour.
  • A bed of roses thorns ( কন্টকময় জীবন ) Life is nothing but a bed of roses.
  • Birds eye view ( মোটামোটি ধারণা ; এক নজর ) He took a bird’s eye view of the flood-stricken area from an aeroplane.
  • At once back and call ( বাধ্য ) He is always at my back and call.
  • Stone's throw ( অতি নিকটে ) Our school is at a stone's throw form our house.