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Set-one-s-cap-at
Set-one-s-cap-at
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(idiomatic) To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl).
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(idiomatic, more generally) To choose something as a goal.
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Origin of set-one-s-cap-at
Probably from French nautical expression ‘mettre
le
cap
sur’, ‘to set a
course
for’.
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