ask for the moon

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Pronunciation

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Verb

ask for the moon (third-person singular simple present asks for the moon, present participle asking for the moon, simple past and past participle asked for the moon)

1. (idiomatic) To claim or desire something that one cannot have.

Related terms

• moon on a stick
• promise the moon
• reach for the moon

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: demanar la lluna (ca)
• Finnish: pyytää kuuta taivaalta (fi)
• French: demander la lune (fr)
• Italian: chiedere la luna
• Occitan: voler mólher garias, demandar la luna (provençal), voler la mosca blua (gascon)
• Polish: chcieć gwiazdki z nieba (literally “star from [the] sky”)
• Portuguese: pedir o impossível (literally “ask for the impossible”)
• Russian: no equivalent term in Russian, but see проси́ть доста́ть луну́ с не́ба (prosítʹ dostátʹ lunú s néba)
• Spanish: pedir la luna (es), pedir cotufas en el golfo (es), pedir peras al olmo (es) (literally “ask the elm for pears”)

See also

• ask the impossible