| 单词 | lower one's sights |
| 释义 | lower one's sightsReduce one's goals or aspirations, as in Once he got the job I'd applied for, I had to lower my sights. This expression alludes to taking aim through the sights of a firearm. Also see raise one's sights; set one's sights on. [Second half of 1900s] Words nearby lower one's sightsLower Merion, Lower Michigan, lower mordent, lowermost, lower motor neuron, lower one's sights, Lower Palaeolithic, lower regions, Lower Rhine, Lower Saxony, lower school The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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