Wouldn’t dream….

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Wouldn’t dream….

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I wouldn’t dream of letting strangers look after my own grandfather!

In the expression beginning “wouldn’t dream…”
can we use "about" instead of the preposition “of” from grammatical point of view?


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Re: Wouldn’t dream….

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No. It is a fixed idiom.
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