ask for the moon BrE informal
cry for the moon BrE informal
want the moon

And then there are people who ask for the moon.

And yes, they are thinking of asking for the moon.

But worth it, which is why they can ask for the moon.

You make it sound like I'm asking for the moon.

They're always asking for the moon, too, their parents say, but they never get it.

"They asked for the moon and the stars," the official said.

She might as well have asked for the moon.

We have to be realistic and not ask for the moon."

"There is nothing wrong with asking for the moon," Nash said.

Then someone thought of the Met, suspecting it would be like asking for the moon.

"Sure, he asks for the moon and the solar system, but that's his job."

She might as well have asked for the moons, she decided, and tried to put it out of her mind.

You didn't ask for the moons of this forsaken world.

Fernandez, who can be a free agent after the season, isn't asking for the moon.

Because, according to them, I had a tendency to ask for the moon, as well as all the planets.

"Ask for the moon and settle for whatever you can get?

"Ask for the moon, as long as you're making wishes.

Might as well ask for the moon.

"Ask for the moon, and you're more like to get it," the King's Own said grimly.

We are not asking for the moon.

Of course, that is exactly what the members of board compensation committees are supposed to do when chief executives ask for the moon each year.

Palestinian television regularly shows him at some third world airport, repeating a mantra: "I am not asking for the moon.

My Mother wasn't insured and the funeral director's bill of £150 was a shock (he might as well have asked for the moon).

Curiously, 30 years ago this month, Earth, in effect, asked for the Moon, too, and it also gave us Armstrong.

I sound like a child crying for the moon!

And so he represses the part of himself which used to cry for the moon.

But they cost £30, you might as well cry for the moon.

"You're crying for the moon," Freeman said after a pause.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon.

Crying for the moon would get her nowhere.

"Cry for the Moon" is based on the abuse of children by Catholic priests.

"You are in fact crying for the moon.

It just keeps on nagging you to give it the impossible, like a baby crying for the moon."

'Crying for the moon' had become a principle when he was already much too old for principles.

Stop crying for the moon!

It is not those who 'cry for the Moon' who go furthest or get most in this limited world of ours.

"Cry for the Moon" is a symphonic metal song by Epica.

She told herself not to cry for the moon, and resolved to enjoy herself as far as possible while she was in Holland.

Cry for the Moon (1988)

'Crying for the Moon'(wanting the unobtainable) for example, is the basis of a fairy tale in many countries.

This is crying for the moon, or rather pretending to cry for it, for the writer is obviously insincere.

In spite of Mr. Ratcliffe, is it not better to be a child and to cry for the moon and stars?

If a baby cries for the moon, the policeman cannot procure the moon--but neither can he stop the baby.

Epica performing Cry For The Moon live in Cologne.

Still under the name Sahara Dust, they produced a two-song demo entitled Cry for the Moon in 2002.

Cry For The Moon (1993.01.27)

Look at that absurd Tom, wasting his time and making an object of himself just because he can't have what he wants, like a baby crying for the moon.

Crying for the Moon (Dorothy M. Tweedale)

The album was followed by three singles: "The Phantom Agony", "Feint" and "Cry for the Moon".