you wish

English

Pronunciation

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Phrase

you wish

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Used to express the speaker's skepticism about a preceding statement concerning some desired or assumed state of affairs.

   "When I grow up, I'm going to be a superhero!" / "Huh, you wish!"

   "They can't bench me. I'm the best shooter on the team." / "You wish!"

Usage notes

• See I wish.

Synonyms

• in your dreams
• you wish, jellyfish

Related terms

• I wish

Translations

(idiomatic, colloquial) used to express the speaker's skepticism about a preceding statement concerning some desired or assumed state of affairs

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 你想呀！ (nei⁵ soeng² aa³!)

• Finnish: älä unta näe
• Hungarian: csak szeretnéd (informal) … / szeretné (formal) (lit. “you’d only like that”; i.e. “that’s only something you’d like to have”)
• Neapolitan: te piacesse!
• Polish: chciałbyś! (singular, to a male listener), chciałabyś! f (singular, to a female listener), chcielibyście (plural, with at least one male listener), chciałybyście! (plural, with no male listener)
• Portuguese: quem te dera
• Romanian: ai vrea tu, s-o crezi tu
• Russian: мечта́ть не вре́дно! (mečtátʹ ne vrédno!), размечта́лся! (ru) (razmečtálsja!) (to a male listener), размечта́лась! (ru) (razmečtálasʹ!) (to a female listener), размечта́лись! (ru) (razmečtálisʹ!) (to a group)
• Tagalog: asa ka pa
• Turkish: rüyanda görürsün

See also

• from your lips to God's ears