English
Pronunciation
Phrase
you wish
- (idiomatic, colloquial, somewhat derogatory, often sarcastic) 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
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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
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