set one's cap at
English
Alternative forms
Verb
- (idiomatic) To choose a man as a potential husband (for a girl).
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- 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 […]
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- (idiomatic, more generally) To choose something as a goal.
- 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.
- Patrick O'Brian, "HMS Surprise".
Translations
to choose a man as a potential husband for a girl
to choose something as a goal
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