shoot the moon
Example Sentences
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Perhaps best of all, there are phenomenal photography opportunities to shoot the moon in conjunction with the iconic memorials lining the Mall.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022
Instead of piecemeal revision or repeal of some provisions of Taft-Hartley, he says, “why not just shoot the moon: Get rid of this awful law!”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2019
The outlook for pancreatic cancer is so poor, and the established treatments so useless, that any patient who has the disease might as well shoot the moon with new, untested therapies.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2012
Once when the late Bill Knudsen saw one of Curtice's sales forecasts, he muttered: "Well, by Got, you can't shoot the moon unless you see it first, you know."
From Time Magazine Archive
To "shoot the moon," as the English say, is to decamp from a house without paying the rent.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
