Idiom
ask for the moon
Meaning
To claim or desire something that one cannot have.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Asking for a raise this soon is asking for the moon.”
“The manager told the client that expecting the project finished by tomorrow is asking for the moon.”
“While he understood the team's ambition, he cautioned them that requesting such an enormous budget during a financial crisis was essentially asking for the moon.”
Examples
simple
“Asking for a raise this soon is asking for the moon.”
contextual
“The manager told the client that expecting the project finished by tomorrow is asking for the moon.”
complex
“While he understood the team's ambition, he cautioned them that requesting such an enormous budget during a financial crisis was essentially asking for the moon.”
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