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

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Escape by ( রক্ষা করা ) He escaped by a hair breadth.
  • Rest upon ( নির্ভর করা ; বিশ্বাসস্থাপন করা ) I rest upon your promise.
  • Loyal to ( বিশ্বস্ত ) He is loyal to his master.
  • Count for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) His advice counts for nothing.
  • Different from ( পৃথক ) This book is different from that.
  • Think over ( চিন্তা করা (কোনকিছু) ) Think carefully over his advice.

Idioms:

  • By and large ( প্রধানতঃ ) People in our village are by and large farmers.
  • Breathe one's last ( মারা যাওয়া ) The old man breathed his last on Sunday last.
  • set a naught ( কলা দেখানো )
  • A bolt from the blue ( সম্পূর্ন অপ্রত্যাশিত ) The news of his father's death came to him as a bolt from the blue.
  • At sixes and sevens ( বিশৃঙ্খলা অবস্থায় ) All the furniture in the room were at sixes and sevens.
  • Fight shy ( এড়িয়ে চলা ) Why do you fight shy of your teacher.