angle for sth
angle for something
1. Lit. to fish for something, as with a fishhook and line.
Fred was angling for a big bass.
I am angling for whatever I can catch.
2. Fig. to scheme or plan to get something; to "fish" for something.
She is just angling for a larger settlement from her former employer.
Are you angling for a raise in pay?
热门单词
- absence
- add sth up
- adjust (oneself) to so or sth
- a dressing-down
- against the clock
- aground
- a level playing field
- (all) balled up
- all kinds of so or sth
- all-out war
- (all) tuckered out
- aloof
- a man after my own heart
- a man of few words
- a milestone in so's life
- amount to sth
- an offer one cannot refuse
- announce sth to so
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
- appear at some place
- appoint so to sth
