Shoot The Moon

We need a NASA-led shoot-the-moon project to develop the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, produce energy cheaper than from coal, end atmospheric CO2 emissions, and help the developing world achieve their ambitions to approach a US standard of living. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And success for NASA and its "shoot-the-moon" mission. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bill Parcells likes his athletic pass rushers, and while Derrick Morgan makes sense and the versatility of Brandon Graham or Jerry Hughes could work here, Pierre-Paul is the shoot-the-moon pick. ❋ Pete Fiutak (2010)

As a practical matter, their willingness to speculate tends to increase the volume of shoot-the-moon cases with a small chance of success but a huge potential recovery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For more serious cooks, a shoot-the-moon alternative is Cook's Illustrated. ❋ By BOB TEDESCHI (2010)

They would have bought more at 8.5 or below, but didn't even bother to put in a shoot-the-moon bid near zero. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Democrats seem to be employing a shoot-the-moon strategy, trying to raise enough doubts about Palin that she becomes a major liability. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The county’s boom also attracted several shoot-the-moon plans, never realized, for a Nascar track and the world’s first indoor eighteen-hole golf course. ❋ Matt Dellinger (2010)

[Passing] a [driving test] without [lessons] is like shooting the moon. ❋ Tom Wells (2008)

1. YOU HAD A FRICKIN' [ACE OF HEARTS], BUT YOU PLAYED A TWO!? WAY TO [LET HIM SHOOT] THE MOON!! 2. 5 star [Freebird] on Guitar Hero II? You're shootin' the moon! ❋ Dougwastaken (2007)

The game of hearts is scored in a golf sort of way. The lower the score the better. Usually the game is played to 100; when one player reaches one hundred, the game ends. If playing for money, payoff is based on point differential, but it has many variations. All hearts are worth a point each, and the queen of spades is 13. So you have one of two objectives in each hand: sluff off as many hearts and the Queen as possible to stay low or ... if you think you have the hand, "[shoot the moon]" by capturing all the hearts and the queen. If you do, each of your opponents is "assessed" 26 points. ([shooting the moon]) It's a great play, but [a risky one]. A player looking to shoot the moon often gets all but say 1 or 2 points. So instead of his opponents being hit for 26 each, they get zero and you would eat 24 points(if another player had, say, 2 hearts) ❋ Mongo Gerry (2010)

"[Roll down the window] [Lester], ['cause] I'm shooting the moon!" ❋ Mollymeaghanmalarkey (2014)

- [Reham] used to be a smart ass, but never gained high marks at school, but once she { shot the moon} in all her final exams, she became one of the first top ten students in the country. - What? You'll [flunk] the test? Are you mad? Don't you have eyes to see? Are you [driving me nuts]? Don't you know that our classmate, Reham, {shot the moon} a week ago and passed with an honor? Go and {shoot the moon} or you will fail. ❋ Iyad Mahdood (2013)

"because we're shooting the moon at [2:30] this morning, we're only taking [the smallest], easiest [to carry] things with us." ❋ Big Orange (2007)

"Jesus, I drank 14 beers, five [cocktails] and three [tequila's] last night but today I feel great!" "Way to [shoot the moon], dude!" ❋ Daozmiester (2008)

It's such a [nice night], I think I'll [go out] back and [shoot the moon]. ❋ Okie Won Kenobi (2010)

"Bo, looks like we're [gonna have to] shoot the moon" [Cooter] - [Dukes of Hazzard] ❋ Stuntman Eric (2007)

-"[Shooting the moon] is an extremely [bad idea] and usually only leads to pain and misery in the end. Only the lucky ones get out [unscathed]." -"As soon as I turned him onto using needles, he was [shooting the moon] and spending his every last penny on more cocaine." ❋ Indigo Kid (2010)