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View synonyms for if only

if only



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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 .

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Example Sentences

Timothy Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.

But what I can see is that Geithner has become America's latest if-only-we-got-rid-of-him-it'd-all-be-better bogeyman.

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