center or bull's eye of an archery target (old) / goal / target
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swan
to respectfully await / to look forward to
bull's-eye / target / objective
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom) / fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom) / fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
(white) swan
swan / person with noble aspirations
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