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单词 set one's cap for
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set one's cap for

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Pursue someone romantically, as in We all thought Anne had set her cap for Joe, but we were wrong. In the 1700s this term, which may have alluded to donning one's best headgear, was applied to members of either sex, but by the early 1800s it generally described a woman chasing a man. It is probably obsolescent.

Words nearby set one's cap for

Seto Naikai, set on a pedestal, set one back, set one back on one's feet, set one's back up, set one's cap for, set one's face against, set one's heart on, set one's mind at rest, set one's mind on, set one's seal on
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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