designs on

designs on
   (have)
   to wish to seduce
   Not just wearing a patterned dress or carrying plans:
    ... they contain no mention of his having had designs on the local girls. (Bence-Jones, 1987, writing about the dissolute Earl of Leitrim who was murdered in Donegal in 1878)

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