your mission, should you choose to accept it
English
Etymology
From the TV series Mission: Impossible.
Phrase
your mission, should you choose to accept it
- (informal, humorous) Your mission or task; what you must do.
- 2000 January 15, Peter Sagal, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio
- We recently heard about a particularly daring espionage coup. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to our panelists as they describe a tactic that even Matt Helm had never thought of.
- 2000 January 15, Peter Sagal, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio