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raise one's sights

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[raise 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./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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