raise one's sights

raise one's sights
raise one's sights
Fig. to set higher goals for oneself. (Alludes to someone lifting the sights of a gun in order to fire farther.) •

When you're young, you tend to raise your sights too high.

On the other hand, some people need to raise their sights.

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{v. phr.} To aim high; be ambitious. * /Teenage boys sometimes think too much of themselves and have a tendency to raise their sights too high./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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