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like to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, liked to . Come close to, be on the point of. For example, We like to froze to death , or He liked to have never got away . This expression, now considered a colloquialism from the American South, dates from the early 1400s and was used several times by Shakespeare.Example Sentences
"In my room at Racing's dormitory – one of my favourite places in the world – I used to sit and think about what it would be like to make it to the first team. But I had this idea stuck in my head that I'd never be like those idols I admired. Diego Milito, Roger Martinez, Gustavo Bou, and 'Licha' Lopez – those are real players," he wrote.
It’s fine—normally, I like to give Americans a bit of grief over their solipsism, but things have been domestically on fire for the past 100 days or so.
Where would you eventually like to take this next?
Two feral cats like to sneak into my backyard to hunt the birds at my feeders and they’ve caught more than a few bluejays and mourning doves, which makes me want to set up little fences and do things to protect the birds, which makes me question to what level humans should interfere with nature doing what nature does.
"We like to toy with it. We like to take the irony on."
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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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