to follow your dream
18
3.4
- idiom
:
seguir tus sueños
- She decided to follow her dreams of becoming an artist, despite the challenges she faced.
- he said, "Follow your dreams"
- always follow your dreams
- just follow your dream
I believe that as you follow your dream, it begins, it gets bigger.
- I believe that as you follow your dream, it begins, it gets bigger.
- That's a noble thing to do and follow your dreams.
- How many actors in LA tell you to follow your dreams?
- And so really what the story is about is like follow your dreams.
- But you know, I think it's important to be stubborn and to to follow your dreams no matter what.
- And he told me, listen, I want you to follow your dreams, but I don't want to get sucked into it.
- But the idea that in all circumstances you should love yourself and follow your dreams and do whatever you want to do is crazy.
- And, and I said, you know, he said to me, he goes, son, follow your dreams, but don't ask me to finance everything that you want to do.
- Your task is to follow your dream because everything that we have in our lives is our dreams, and they determine how high we're going to get.
Examples
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I've learned that it's important to be yourself and follow your dreams.
Academic text (2010) -
There is no time like the present to follow your dreams.
Blog text (17) -
So good luck and just follow your dreams and good luck with them.
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And I want everyone watching to really feel what it's like to follow your dreams because it's what you want to do.
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But the idea that in all circumstances you should love yourself and follow your dreams and do whatever you want to do is crazy.
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I make goals in life, I follow my dreams.
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You have to follow your dreams.
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And when we reach the end of our days, we may ask ourselves, did I follow my dream?
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Know what you want, then follow your dream.
Academic text (2010) -
My advice to you: follow your dreams.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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3.5
To try to get something you want, like a job or a goal
79
2.8
To try to reach a goal
30
3.9
To try to reach a big, difficult goal
3
7.1
To try to do very big or difficult things to get what you want
1
3.0
Work to make a dream come true
To keep trying to reach a goal even when things are hard
Antonyms
How Determined
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to pursue your personal ambitions' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'follow' (go after), 'your' (possessive) and 'dream' (aspiration). This compositional metaphor (pursuing a dream) is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English verb + object patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Follow your dream comes from the image of following a bright dream ahead, moving step by step even when the road is hard. So it means 'to pursue your hopes or goals' despite problems.