be gunning for somethinginformal to be trying very hard to obtain something 力图获取某物 He’s gunning for your job. 他竭力谋取你的职位。
be gunning for something• Another officer is already gunning for his job.• Why should he be gunning for me?• Being No. 1, we knew a lot of teams are gunning for us.
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