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wish on
verb
- tr, preposition to hope that (someone or something) should be imposed (on someone); foist
I wouldn't wish my cold on anyone
Idioms and Phrases
Foist or impose something on another, as in I wouldn't wish this job on my worst enemy . [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
It reads and sounds like a starry-eyed teenager’s diary entry: Late at night when all the world is sleeping / I stay up and think of you / And I wish on a star / that somewhere you are / thinking of me too…
“Playing it and processing it at the same time is something I wouldn’t wish on anybody,†Bomer says.
It is not a situation one would wish on their worst enemy.
“It’s something I would never wish on my worst enemy.â€
The couple, who have asked for their identities to be protected, said it was such a "lonely time that they wish on no-one else".
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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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