set sights
English
Verb
set sights (third-person singular simple present sets sights, present participle setting sights, simple past and past participle set sights)
- (transitive with on) Alternative form of set one's sights
- 2007 November 28, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Defending Rights, He Said He Was Marked to Die”, in New York Times, retrieved 1 August 2015:
- Now the Colombian paramilitaries had set sights on him.
Further reading
- “set sights on” in Idioms and phrases, TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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