set one's heart on

[set one's heart on] {v. phr.}

To want very much.

* /He set his heart on that bike./

also: To be very desirous of; hope very much to succeed in. — Used with a verbal noun.

* /He set his heart on winning the race./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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