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set one's heart on (third-person singular simple present sets one's heart on, present participle setting one's heart on, simple past and past participle set one's heart on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To desire with intensity and commitment, to earnestly long for.
1856, T. S. Arthur, “A True Tale of Life”, in The Wedding Guest:With all the willful eagerness of a child she set her heart on that visit, and from morning till night she would talk with her little boys of the journey to what seemed to her the brightest, most sacred spot on earth, next to her present home.
1876, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 5, in Rose in Bloom:[H]e always found it hard to give up anything he had set his heart on, no matter how trivial.
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