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like to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, liked to . Come close to, be on the point of. For example, We like to froze to death , or He liked to have never got away . This expression, now considered a colloquialism from the American South, dates from the early 1400s and was used several times by Shakespeare.Example Sentences
“I think that both teams like to use each other as a barometer, or a benchmark,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
"I'd still like to know a bit more about her – what she was like and all that – but I never will, so there you go," she says.
“I like to have one foot there and one foot here and see what happens first,” he adds.
“So whatever time I have in L.A., I like to make the most of it,” he told The Times in a recent interview.
The younger Okura and company have been upgrading infrastructure steadily and would like to reopen the motel — perhaps even get the six cottages open in time for the Route 66 centennial in 2026.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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