I couldn't wish for...

I couldn't wish for...
I couldn’t ask/wish/for... spoken phrase
used for saying that something is so good, you cannot imagine anything better

I couldn’t wish for a better husband.

We got fantastic support – we couldn’t have asked for more.

Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing how good something issynonym
Main entry: could

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