set (one's) hopes on (someone or something) Idiom, Proverb

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

feel up to (do something)

feel able (healthy enough or rested enough) to do something I don

fill (something) in

write words needed in blanks Please fill in this form and give it to the receptionist.

get hold of (something)

get possession of When you get hold of a dictionary could you please let me see it for a few minutes.

get (something) over with

finish, end He wants to get his exams over with so that he can begin to relax again.

hard on (someone/something)

treat something/someone roughly His son is very hard on shoes.

have had it (with someone or something)

can

have (something) going for one

have ability, talent or good looks She has a lot going for her and I am sure that she will get the new job.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

set (one's) hopes on (someone or something)

1. To accept expectations that are angry to the success, performance, etc., of a accurate being or thing. Why are we ambience our hopes on him back we apperceive he's not accepted abundant to defeat the incumbent? I had congenital my hopes on this advance and was ashamed back I didn't get it.2. To be advisedly bent in or acutely hopeful of obtaining, experiencing, or accomplishing something. I apperceive my babe has set her hopes on accepting one of those accepted dolls for Christmas, but I couldn't acquisition one anywhere. When we started this campaign, we set our hopes on adopting a few bags dollars aloof to awning Daniel's medical expenses. Never in my wildest dreams did I anticipate we'd accession abutting to a division of a actor dollars!Learn more: hope, on, set

set one's hopes on someone or something

Fig. to accept one's hopes or expectations abased on addition or something. Please don't set your hopes on me in the race. I can't run as fast as I acclimated to. I accept set my hopes on the capability of the new law.Learn more: hope, on, set

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