your mission, should you choose to accept it

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the TV series Mission: Impossible.

Phrase[edit]

your mission, should you choose to accept it

  1. (informal, humorous) Your mission or task; what you must do.
    • 2000 January 15, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!”, in 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.