I'd rather wish them sayonara.
Why send Christmas joy when you'd rather wish them a crappy new year?
I would far rather wish things had been otherwise, but 'N' is who he is.
I rather wish he would run, just because it would be such fabulous fun to watch, like a Chekhov character wandering on to the set of EastEnders.
"I rather wish it would stop, it doesn't do our reputation any good at all.
Some of them you rather wish she wouldn't, including imitating bird calls and doing funny voices: King of the Mountain features a passable impersonation of its subject, Elvis, which is at least less disastrous than the strewth-cobber Aussie accent she adopted on 1982's The Dreaming.
Yet, with hindsight, I rather wish I'd not watched Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story.
I rather wish they'd done the diagrams-with-straws scene.
Which is probably prudent, but makes me rather wish we'd met before she got the job.
It had survived 70 years until that point, and I rather wish I'd taken more care of it.
