Timeline for What is the idiom 'what more could one ask for' in American English?
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | Casey | I mean, just "what more could you ask for?" is probably fine. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Agreed, "one" is slowly falling out of general use in British English. Most people would say "I've got a room with a view. What more could you ask for?". (That is, "you" rather than "one"). But "no-one" is still current: "No-one could ask for anything more". | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @PeterShor, there's colloquial and colloquial. There are people for whom 'one' is in everyday speech. But many people would only ever use 'one' if they were trying to sound upper class, for whatever reason. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Colin: there's a use of "one" when it means a certain specific person (for example, me), which sounds very British to me. But as a general pronoun, not so much. See Ngram. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I don't think 'one' is much more cmmon in colloquial British English! | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 14:10 | history | answered | T.E.D. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |