set one's cap for

为之倾倒的帽子为之倾倒的人为之倾倒

set one's cap for 的定义

  1. 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.

set one's cap for 近义词

set one's cap for

等同于 woo

更多set one's cap for例句

  1. When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
  2. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  3. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  4. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  5. Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
  10. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.