raise one's sights
1raise one's sights — {v. phr.} To aim high; be ambitious. * /Teenage boys sometimes think too much of themselves and have a tendency to raise their sights too high./ …
2raise one's sights — {v. phr.} To aim high; be ambitious. * /Teenage boys sometimes think too much of themselves and have a tendency to raise their sights too high./ …
3raise one's sights — ► raise (or lower) one s sights increase (or lower) one s expectations. Main Entry: ↑sight …
4raise one's sights — raise (or lower) one s sights become more (or less) ambitious; increase (or lower) one s expectations …
5raise\ one's\ sights — v. phr. To aim high; be ambitious. Teenage boys sometimes think too much of themselves and have a tendency to raise their sights too high …
6raise (or lower) one's sights — become more (or less) ambitious; increase (or lower) one s expectations. → sigh for …
7raise/lower one's sights — If you raise/lower your sights, your raise or lower your expectations, or you are more or less ambitious. He had to lower his sights and accept a less well paid job than what he hoped for …
8lower one's sights — ► raise (or lower) one s sights increase (or lower) one s expectations. Main Entry: ↑sight …
9sights — n. aspirations 1) to set one s sights on (she set her sights on a career in politics) 2) to lower; raise one s sights 3) (misc.) to set one s sights high something worth seeing 4) to see, take in the sights (the tourists took in the sights) * * * …
10raise, rear, rise, raze — Once it was maintained that people raised pigs and corn and reared children. Careful speakers preserve this distinction, but the general public does not; therefore, you can raise or rear as many children as you can afford, with no purist in… …
