Sam’s Save the Idiom Quest IV

Ask for the Moon

Meaning: ask for a lot, perhaps an unreasonable amount!

This idiom appeared in the 1800s in literature. Charles Dickens wrote ‘cry for the moon’ in Bleak House, and William Makepeace Thackeray wrote ‘wish for the moon’ in Lovell the Widower. Usually you will hear it as ‘Ask for the moon’.

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