Idioms

set sail for some place

set sail for some place

to leave in a ship or boat for some place. (Not limited to ships having sails.) We set sail for Grenada at noon. When do we set sail for Nantucket?
See also: for, place, sail, set
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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