set one's heart on

Idioms and Phrases

Also, have one's heart set on . Strongly desire something, as in I'd set my heart on a vacation in New Mexico but got sick and couldn't go , or Harry had his heart set on a new pickup truck . [Late 1300s]

Example Sentences

"Mother, it must always be the last chance—the only chance, when one has set one's heart on it."

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Two beautiful eyes looking upon you and seeming to say: 'March upon the enemy!' are enough to set one's heart on fire!

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To be morally good is to know the good, to set one's heart on the true object of affection; and to be theoretically sound is to understand perfection.

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It is not wise to set one’s heart on what one is not sure of getting—or on things that perish with the using—which is emphatically true of jackets.

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"I was thinking that a very little can make folks happy, but that somehow or other that very little is as hard to get as if one set one's heart on a great deal."

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Related Words

• ache
• chafe
• covet
• crave
• hanker
• hunger
• itch
• pine
• thirst