reach/shoot for the moon

idiom

: to try to do or get something that is very difficult to do or get

an ambitious businessman who is always shooting for the moon

Examples of reach/shoot for the moon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The world isn't perfect, and a lot of teams want arms at this time of year, but Cashman might as well shoot for the moon. —Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025

Resilience is still in orbit around the Earth and is gradually raising its orbit ready to shoot for the moon. —Andrew Jones, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2025

Traders can shoot for the moon with short-term volatility funds or take a more modest approach with medium-term funds or even take advantage of calm markets with short funds. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024

Basically, the sky's the limit, so shoot for the moon, dear Archer. —Women's Health, 14 May 2023

And so getting to market with anything autonomous becomes an executive nightmare: either shoot for the moon and possibly go bankrupt like Starsky Robotics did in 2019, or select a much more narrow target. —Steve Tengler, Forbes, 15 June 2022

Pressed to hypothesize, Daus guessed that a combination of L.A. traffic, high-value locations, low-information drivers and wealthier consumers combined to create an opportunity for some stations to shoot for the moon on price. —Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2022

But in Pasco County, Florida, a relatively affordable coastal area about 45 minutes north of Tampa, sellers can no longer shoot for the moon, said Gerard Buglione, an agent with Charles Rutenberg Realty. —Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg.com, 22 Oct. 2021

There’s no doubt some are afraid putting Dune on HBO Max could do the same, but if this trailer is any indication, Villeneuve’s movie is here to shoot for the moon. —Angela Watercutter, Wired, 22 July 2021