cry\ for\ the\ moon

cry\ for\ the\ moon
• ask for the moon
• cry for the moon
v. phr.
To want something that you cannot reach or have; try for the impossible.

John asked his mother for a hundred dollars today. He's always asking for the moon.

Compare: promise the moon

Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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