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ask the impossible

verb

Definitions

  1. To request or expect something that is too difficult.

    • We ask the impossible of our law enforcement agencies, we ask the impossible of our health and rehabilitative agencies, and we confuse the public even further.
    • To ask too much now would be to ask the impossible.
    • What I ask is, will you use your influence within your Party? I do not ask the impossible, though I might from you, for you have done the impossible.

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