lust for

lust for (someone or something)

1. To have a strong sexual desire for someone. Sarah's been lusting for our waiter all night, so I wrote her number on a napkin and told him to call her when he finishes work.
2. To have an intense craving or obsessive desire for something. After two years of weight training and cardio, I've finally got the muscular body I've been lusting for. If you lust for riches, you will become a servant to your own greed. A good advertising agency doesn't cater to what customers lust for—it decides what that is.
See also: lust
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lust for something

Fig. to desire something. He says he lusts for a nice cold can of beer. Mary lusts for rich and fattening ice cream.
See also: lust
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • lust after
  • lust after (someone or something)
  • lust for (someone or something)
  • two jumps ahead (of someone or something)
  • two jumps ahead of
  • two leaps ahead (of someone or something)
  • two steps ahead (of someone or something)
  • hold (someone or something) out of (something)
  • say (something) about (someone or something)
  • say about
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I long for you day and night And when we're together, it feels just right Your lust for me is pure delight!
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That agreement would concede that the left created the pretext for the new federal powers and that every federal initiative and program the left now opposes grew out of its lust for centralized power.
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The photos in "Love & Lust" are a record not only of Donna Ferrato's perspective on the worlds of love and lust around her, but also of her very personal 30-year journey to rediscover and redefine both love and lust for herself--after, she says frankly, "failing to be a faithful wife." In her introduction to "Love & Lust," Ferrato speaks, interestingly, less about her photography than about her expanding understanding of love and sexual desire through her progressive exploration of one sexual subculture after another--most significantly the world of the Lifestyles swingers conventions.
America's foremost rogue-genius architect had many passions, and right up there with his adoration of landscape, his lust for women, and his vaunted narcissism was his love of Japan.
I thought for a moment and then said, "I love you and I lust for you."
A year ago their lust for each other got the better of them.
Where in this theophany, this vaulting lust for immortality, will a seeker such as I come on a face, like a torch beating its way through darkness, wearing a smile of joy?
That idea is summed up in the first sentence of chapter 5, which tells the story of how the lust for spices led, centuries down the road, to smart bombs: "The marketplace has a profound effect on how change comes about.