ИШЬ ЧЕГО ХОЧЕТ

• МНОГОГО <ИШЬ ЧЕГО> ХОЧЕТ/ЗАХОТЕЛ coll

[sent; 3rd or 2nd pers (var. with многого); 3rd pers only, but may refer to the interlocutor (var. with ишь чего; pres or pfv past only; fixed WO]

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⇒ your (his etc) requests, expectations, demands etc are extreme and unreasonable (and if their fulfillment depends on me, I will not fulfill them):

- that's too much!;

- that's a tall order!;

- you must be kidding!;

- you have to be joking!;

- [in limited contexts](now) that's going (a bit) too far!

     ♦ "Ты, как я, пиши смело, морду не воротя: "Всегда с партией, всегда с народом". Да посиди лет десять-двадцать-тридцать с важной и кислой рожей в президиумах, да произнеси сотню-другую казённых речей, вот после этого и приходи за шапкой. А то ишь чего захотел!" (Войнович 6). "You must write boldly, as I do, without turning up your nose: Always with the Party, Always with the People.' And sit in presidiums for ten, twenty, thirty years wearing a solemn sourpuss face. And deliver a few hundred bureaucratic speeches. Then come for your hat. Otherwise - you have to be joking" (6a).