English to Bengali Dictionary

Preferment :

Preferment : পদোন্নতি, শ্রেষ্ঠতর পদ;

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Appropriate Prepositions

Add to (বৃদ্ধি করা, যোগ করা): The doll-dance in the exhibition added to our pleasure.

Aware of(অবগত): I am not aware of his dishonesty.

Consist in (কোনো কিছু মধ্য বিদ্যমান থাকা): Happiness consists in contentment.

Hanker after (আকাঙ্ক্ষা/লোভ করা): He hankers after riches.

Play at (খেলা): I do not play at cards.

Idioms

As ill-luck would have it (unfortunately- দুর্ভাগ্যবশত) A child was born to them but, as ill-luck would have it, it died when it was eight days old.

Brown study (day dream-দিবাস্বপ্ন -n) The woman is absorbed in a brown study.

Eat humble pie (অপমান হজম করে ক্ষমা চাওয়া): The manager had to eat humble pie before his employees.

Tooth and nail (তীব্রভাবে): He fought tooth and nail for the sake of country.

To the contrary (against what some one had said, পক্ষান্তরে) —He said nothing to the contrary.