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Idioms

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.

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like to

MarketWatch: Is there anything I didn’t ask that you’d like to discuss?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

“But we also like to deposit them back at their parents’ house at 7 o’clock, so we can be in bed to read at 8.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

I’d like to see this on billboards and in schools, in public buildings and grocery stores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He would like to see more young South Asians shaping the future of broadcasting.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Joey imagines what it would be like to hear Brahms, her favorite.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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