Today's idioms are:
🔘 mend your ways ✏️
☑️ Meaning: If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.
✳️ Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.
✳️ It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.
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🎚️ set your sights on 👁
☑️ Meaning: If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.
✳️ Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.
✳️ Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.
🎯 Note: This idiom can also be expressed as "has its sights set on", "has her sights set on", "have their sights set on", and so on.
🎯 Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that a person using a gun looks through the gun's sights in order to aim, and will have his sights set on the target before shooting at it.
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🔘 a dark horse 🐴
☑️ a person about whom little is known
✳️ Mary's a bit of a dark horse. Do you think she's got any chance of being elected?
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