Dream of
Want
Want verb - To have an earnest wish to own or enjoy.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- They commit the crimes the heroes only want/dream of, or are just professional villains compared to them.
Source: Master Support Characters -
Now living the male dream of having the question asked without all that "courting" nonsense, she then completely crushes him by making it clear that she doesn't want to.
Source: Do You Want to Copulate? -
Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Jim's father doesn't want him to pursue his dream of working in Engineering but stay with the clerk job in town.
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