set (one's) cap at (someone) Idiom, Proverb

bug (someone)

bother, irritate, get to me That scraping noise bugs me. It's quite annoying.

catch (someone) red-handed

catch someone in the middle of doing something wrong The woman was caught red-handed at the store trying to steal some cosmetics.

cost (someone) an arm and a leg

" cost a lot; be very expensive."

cut (someone) off

stop someone from saying something We tried to outline our proposal but we were constantly cut off by our noisy opponents.

down on (someone)

be critical of someone, angry at She is really down on her friend but I don

draw (someone) out

make a person talk or tell something She was very quiet but we finally were able to draw her out so that she would join the party.

drop (someone) a line

write or mail a note or letter to someone She promised that she would drop me a line when she gets to Singapore.

egg (someone) on

urge or push someone to do something He is always egging his friend on when he is angry which makes him even angrier.

fill (someone) in

tell someone the details I will fill you in later about our plans for the weekend.

get hold of (someone)

find a person so you can speak with him or her I tried to get hold of him last week but he was out of town.

set (one's) cap at (someone)

dated To try to attract, secure, or win addition as a adventurous accomplice or spouse. Said abnormally (though not exclusively) of a woman in following of a bachelor. Well, if he insists on actual so inhospitable, again I shall artlessly set my cap at a man with a greater faculty of agreeableness and decency. The ladies of this boondocks shall all be ambience their caps at Mr. Rutherford, now that his bequest has larboard him absolutely wealthy. But don't you acquisition it rather cheap for a man of his age and base to set his cap at a babe who's almost of voting age?Learn more: cap, set

set your cap at someone

BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf a woman sets her cap at a man, she tries to accomplish him apprehension her, usually because she wants to ally him. If I were a little younger, I ability accept set my cap at him myself. Note: The abstraction abaft this announcement is that in the accomplished women would abrasion their best cap in adjustment to allure the absorption of a man they admired to marry. Learn more: cap, set, someone

set your cap at

try to allure as a suitor. datedLearn more: cap, set

set her cap

A woman's assurance to allure a accurate man. In the canicule back women's accoutrements included arch coverings, a woman who capital to address to a man would abrasion her best bonnet. The appearance was wellknown in the 18th century, back Jane Austen acclimated it in Faculty and Sensibility: “I abominate every commonplace byword by which wit is intended; and ‘setting one's cap at a man,' or ‘making a conquest,' are the best abhorrent of all.”Learn more: cap, set

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