English of the Day

Idiom of the Day

💥set your sights on

✍🏾Meaning:

If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

❕For example:

🔺Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

🔺Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

🔝Note: This idiom can also be expressed as "has its sights set on", "has her sights set on", "have their sights set on", and so on.

©Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that a person using a gun looks through the gun's sights in order to aim, and will have his sights set on the target before shooting at it.

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