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if only
Idioms and Phrases
I wish that. For example, If only I had known you were coming I would have met your plane , or If only it would snow on Christmas Eve . [c. a.d. 1000] For a synonym, see would that .Example Sentences
I have some numbers here: If only people who had voted in 2022 had voted, Harris would have won the popular vote and also the Electoral College fairly easily.
Ted goes, “If only we had one more song … You guys got any ideas?”
This Court should not be fooled by the good deeds defendant promises to accomplish if only he could close the detention doors behind him.”
Calling Abrego Garcia’s plight a “distraction,” even if only on the narrow issue of gang membership, as Newsom’s office later clarified was his intent, is flat-out wrong.
She arranges for the wedding to continue as planned, if only to appease Min’s grandfather, who stayed behind in Korea.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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