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aim atTo design for a particular audience.Rate it:

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aim toTo intend to.Rate it:

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take aimTo position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at')Rate it:

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aim toUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see aim,‎ to.Rate it:

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take aimTo direct criticism (towards).Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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cue upThe act of taking aim on the cue ball with the cue in a game of snooker, or billiards, etc.Rate it:

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muck inTo join in attaining a common aim.Rate it:

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zero inTo focus one's aim; to zoom in and center on something.Rate it:

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zero in onTo aim precisely at a target.Rate it:

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divide and conquerA combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.(computing) Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.(as imperative, proverb) In order to rule securely, don't allow alliances of your enemies.Rate it:

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to no availEffect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).Rate it:

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bring to bearTo aim a weapon at a target.Rate it:

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drive atTo mean, signify; to aim or tend to a point.Rate it:

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preparar, apontar, fogoready, aim, fireRate it:

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reach for the star's. but be happy with the cloudsAim high but be satisfied with what you achieveRate it:

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snakes and laddersA children's luck-based board game played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.Rate it:

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swing for the fencesTo swing at the ball as hard as possible, with the aim of getting a home run, increasing the chance of missing the ball.Rate it:

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take a bead onTo aim a gun at something.Rate it:

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