ASK FOR THE MOON Definition & Meaning

ask for the moon

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Make an unreasonable demand, request the unattainable, as in $1,000 for her birthday? Mary might as well be asking for the moon . This hyperbolic idiom appeared in the mid-1800s in slightly different form. Charles Dickens had it as cry for the moon (in Bleak House , 1852) and William Makepeace Thackeray as wish for the moon (in Lovell the Widower , 1860). Today ask is the most common version.

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"I know we can't ask for the moon," said Representative Don Bacon, a moderate Republican whose Nebraska district Biden won by 6 percentage points in 2020.

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Ask for the moon and negotiate until it’s a win-win.

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“If I were Zelensky, I would ask for the moon. But it’s up to us to decide what is in our national security interest.”

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She did ask for the moon, very nearly.

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Don’t ask for the moon while we still have the star.

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