would
/wʊd/, /wəd/ modal verb (REQUEST)Definition
› used as a form of will in requests and offers: "Would you like some cake?" "Yes, I would." Would you pick up a newspaper on your way home?
(Definition of would modal verb (REQUEST) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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- who would have thought idiom
- someone would give anything to do something, at someone would give anything for something idiom
- someone would give anything for something idiom
- someone would just as soon do something idiom
- someone would not dream of doing something idiom
- someone would give someone the shirt off his or her back idiom
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