I wish

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

I wish

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true

   - I don't know how I'm going to afford all these Christmas presents.
   - Maybe you'll win the lottery and become a millionaire overnight.
   - I wish!

• The verb wish requires an object or prepositional phrase. In conversation, a preceding statement is the understood missing constituent of the complete expression.

• from your lips to God's ears

• you wish

• Hiwis