Idioms can be a powerful linguistic tool only when they are used in the right way in the right places.
Idiom:
have designs on (someone or something)
Meaning:
to have plans for someone or something
Example:
The city has designs on the land that the railway used to occupy.
List of common idioms, their meanings and examples of their usage in sentences
An expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements or in its grammatically atypical use of words.