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"Expect highly of" legal?

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Unless one is pregnant, the word "Expect" is transitive.

So is it legal grammar to say:

I expect highly of you.

There is no direct object, is there?

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  1. No, sounds awful to me. I expect more of you.


  2. Better would be "I have high expectations of you"
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