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Reach for the Sky

What it means

Aim at something well beyond whatever is safely within your grasp.

Where it comes from

It has two lives. Ambition in one, and in Westerns a demand to put your hands up, which is the same gesture read as surrender rather than aspiration.

The puzzle it came from

Reach for the Sky was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 22, 2025. The clue read ____ for the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrasicle: Reach for the Sky

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