Meaning of set one's heart on | Babel Free

Definitions

To desire with intensity and commitment, to earnestly long for.

idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“With all the willful eagerness of a child she set her heart on that visit, and from morning till night she would talk with her little boys of the journey to what seemed to her the brightest, most sacred spot on earth, next to her present home.”

“[H]e always found it hard to give up anything he had set his heart on, no matter how trivial.”

“Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship.”

“Americans can do whatever they set their hearts on.”

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