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reach for the sky en · INTJ
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Surrender (by putting your hands up)!
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stick 'em up · hands up
reach for the sky en · VERB
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(idiomatic, informal) To aim for the best possible outcome.
Resigned to his blue-collar status, Donna's father's belief was “Why reach for the sky when you can be happy on earth?” Donna says, “My dad was trying to save me from disappointment. The daughter of peasant stock shouldn't strive to be in the ruling class, he thought.”
2010, Alfred Lubrano, Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 33:Far better to start modestly and grow gradually than to reach for the sky with grand plans that could only end in the collapse of the institution.
1993, Robert Emmett Curran, The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 27:Indeed, career counseling encourages individuals to “reach for the sky.”
2014, Gideon Arulmani, Anuradha J. Bakshi, Frederick T. L. Leong, A. G. Watts, Handbook of Career Development: International Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 306:
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the sky is the limit
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reach for the stars · aim for the sky