set one's cap at

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl). idiomatic
    — To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]
  2. To choose something as a goal. broadly,idiomatic
    — Patrick O'Brian, "HMS Surprise". How he has escaped marriage until now I cannot tell: the number of caps set in his direction would furnish a warehouse.

词形变化

sets one's cap at present,singular,third-person setting one's cap at participle,present set one's cap at participle,past set one's cap at past set one's cap for alternative

词源

Probably a calque of French mettre le cap sur (“to set a course for”).
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