Definition of hitch in English:

hitch

verb hɪtʃhɪtʃ

1with object, and adverbial of direction Move (something) into a different position with a jerk.
急拉，猛推
she hitched up her skirt and ran
Example sentencesExamples
- As skirts were hitched up and ties loosened, out came the blue Rimmel eyeliners and the Body Shop blushers.
- Mac hitched the blanket higher over one shoulder.
- Lift up the right hip as far as it will go, hitching it up towards the ribcage.
- These tunics were usually worn to below the knee, but during travel they were hitched up by a belt to make walking easier.
- After he had moved on to other news, Ara hitched her rucksack higher on her back, prepared to go to her glade.
- The clerk reached for the phone; I hitched my pants and vamoosed.
- I hop across the lounge between wheelchair and sofa - he hitches up his right foot and copies me.
- Best to hitch up our Fafbelts and get used to him right.
- ‘Some strange types round these parts, lady,’ as he spat his tobacco, hitched his pajamas and banged the gate behind us.
- Gnat walks up to a mirror, hitches her shirt up, sticks out her tongue.
- I hitched my pack into a more comfortable position and grimaced.
- Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes.
- It was hitched up to reveal an underskirt of a different color and with no hoops or panniers.
Synonyms
pull, jerk, hike, lift, raise
informal yank
2informal no object Travel by hitch-hiking.
〈非正式〉搭便车旅行
they hitched to Birmingham
Example sentencesExamples
- She says she had always hoped to go back to Russia, after spending her gap-year there while all her friends were hitching around India.
- If you're hitching on an interstate it's best to try to hitch from highway onramps.
- I've seen a few people hitching with suitcases, but that's weird.
- He said he hardly ever picks anyone up, and I said this is the first time I'd successfully hitched.
- The two of them trekked and hitched across Iran, relying on the kindness of strangers.
- I had left Peshawar early in the morning the day before, and hitched out of town on a succession of brightly painted trucks.
- There was the student hitching on a road outside Maynooth.
- There's an unspoken rule when hitching that polite listening is compulsory, arguing outlawed.
- Unlike the Paris to Dakar rally, where every car has a support vehicle, if we break down in the Sahara we'll be hitching our way out.
- Even hitching to Brighton, where I have supportive friends, would be a nightmare from here.
- Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec - ‘if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French’.
- So at the start of the summer holidays I hitched to Birmingham, found a studio that swallowed my false ID and got both nipples done.
- Julie Felix came to England in 1964 after leaving California and hitching through Europe with a duffel bag and guitar.
- They are believed to have hitched South and made a new life for themselves near Clones, Co.
- We hitched in pairs and, as a general rule, we'd all meet up outside the cathedral of whichever city we were heading for.
- I'd been hitching around Australia and New Zealand not knowing what was happening to my sight, so at least it all made sense.
- Delighted at the chance to escape the mayhem, I hitched along with him.
- I hitched out to Joshua Tree to go rock climbing.
- We'd save money by hitching and sleeping in train stations or anywhere we could doss down for a couple of hours.
Synonyms
hitch-hike
informal thumb a lift, hitch a lift
1. 2.1with object Obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking.
  〈非正式〉搭便车旅行
  I hitched a ride up the road
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below.
  Jo Jo was hitching rides down to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, when she disappeared.
  Treading the beat and hitching rides around the vast air base, he is constantly on the move checking on his international flock.
  Children are dicing with death hitching rides on the back of moving vehicles.
  The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage.
  Synonyms
  hitch-hike, ask for, request, signal for
3with object Fasten or tether.
（用绳索）拴，系
he returned to where he had hitched his horse
他回到他拴马的地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the city's photographic market, which is still largely hitched to 35 mm, digital is confined to the lower end and to media professionals.
- They were now behind the church where people pulled up their buggies and carriages and hitched them to the posts that were set up.
- He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping.
- The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending.
- He is hitching the bullock cart to the New Economy.
- If you need to hitch a heavy trailer, the suspension can be lowered to a suitable height.
- He hitched his wagon to the ideologues who surround him, filtering out those who disagreed, including leaders of his own party and the uniformed military.
- So this week I have been mostly hitching my wagon to VitaminQ's star.
- This they hitched to their truck, and then we drove off to the station.
- But is hitching your company to a star really the right move?
- Ross's Maoist back-to-nature fantasies were hitched to theories filched from the 1960s architectural avant-garde.
Synonyms
harness, yoke, couple, fasten, connect, attach, tie, tether, bind
1. 3.1 Harness (a draught animal or team)
  给（一头或一组役畜）上轭具
  Thomas hitched the pony to his cart
  托马斯把马驹套在车上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Reining his horse up beside Barranca he ground hitched him hoping that nothing would startle the gelding.
  Red already had the team hitched for her, so she kissed Joey goodbye and climbed up in the tall seat.
  The horses were hitched up and finally everything was ready.
  The horses had been hitched to it, and Jairdan, who was driving, was already in the driver's seat.
  He caught up with her as she moved to hitch the saddle over Tempest's back.
  ‘He's too fine a beast to be hitched to do this kind of work,’ he protested.
  I saw one leading Angel Wing up to the lead cart and hitching him to the other horses there.
  At the end of a day's fishing, the day's catch was loaded into a cart, and the dog was hitched up to haul the load into town.
  Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable.
  The horses were hitched up to a nearby tree, untacked, and seemed to be getting along with each other fine.
  Synonyms
  harness, yoke, saddle, bridle, hitch up, couple

noun hɪtʃhɪtʃ

1A temporary difficulty or problem.
故障
everything went without a hitch
一切顺利，毫无故障。
Example sentencesExamples
- The competition went smoothly and without any major hitches all the way up to the ninth-graders.
- For some reason, software that had worked earlier without a hitch had waited until election night to omit eight precincts in the tally.
- And hopefully, the elections will go without a hitch.
- Thanks to Maureen Kidd who was responsible for all the arrangements and, in her usual efficient planning, everything went without a hitch.
- And while, certainly, they do, many, many more trials go off without a hitch.
- And the good news is the European Space Agency's Mars Express appears to have gone into orbit around Mars without a hitch.
- Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive.
- Judith Leach, principal of the girls' school, said the exams, which began at 8.30 am and ended promptly at 1 pm, ran without a hitch.
- Luckily, the surgery was completed without a hitch and the patient was informed of the problem.
- Blogger worked without a hitch, and I feel fine.
- Anyway, the show went on without a hitch or a bullet.
- I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch.
- For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch!
- I'm not saying the battle plan has gone without a hitch.
- The first was put up without a hitch on Wednesday.
- Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch.
- The five pools at the spacious new $16.3 million centre are now tiled and have been filled and tested - without a hitch.
- How can they remember if they had encountered computer hitches over the past two or three months?
- It wasn't easy to do, but English class finally started without a hitch and my headache remained in the back corner of my mind.
- The good news is that it all went without a hitch.
Synonyms
problem, difficulty, issue, snag, setback, catch, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, complication, impediment, barrier, stumbling block, block, trouble
hold-up, interruption, delay, check, stoppage
informal headache, glitch, hiccup
British informal spanner in the works
North American informal monkey wrench in the works
2A knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else.
（尤指把绳子系在某物上的）索结
Example sentencesExamples
- Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp.
- Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots.
1. 2.1North American A device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle.
  〈北美〉（尤指机动车的拖杆）牵引装置
  Example sentencesExamples
  If a trailer starts to sway, it transfers this motion to the back of the car through the hitch.
  The wagon was parked directly in front of another car with a towing hitch and a speedboat directly behind it.
  These pieces of equipment can be easily attached to a trailer hitch and taken from a job site.
  This is a $40,000 truck, with a serious trailer hitch on it.
  I welded a bracket with a pad for bolting a vise to the square tubing that fits into the receiver hitch on the rear of my pickup.
  Their hand crafted tow hitches have ‘custom’ written all over them in invisible letters.
  Trailers and towable equipment should use quality trailer hitch or kingpin locks.
  This is required in all 50 states and should never be hooked onto the receiver hitch or wrapped around the bumper.
  Simply attach a trailer ball to the ATV's back hitch and your powerful machine becomes a hauling wonder.
  To install, slide the unit into place, pin it, and plug its electrical hookup into a lighter/accessory port or the standard hitch wiring.
  Certainly the system has not been without its hitches, particularly for fleets.
  I don't own a boat, but I have a pickup and trailer with a hitch just in case.
  How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch?
  Cadillac's pickup is so fancy that a trailer hitch is optional.
  Most front mounted hitches are used for off road front mounted winches.
  Headlights, brush guard and trailer hitch without ball are standard features.
  It's a factory crew cab that's low enough to accommodate a gooseneck hitch.
  A gooseneck hitch mount may require lubrication and should be checked for condition, especially the adjustment bolts on the tongue tube.
  He has access to a welding machine and can do such things as weld a trailer hitch for himself.
  Some rear bumpers may come with a built-in step or a trailer hitch that will add more functionality to your Chevrolet pickup or SUV.
3informal An act of hitch-hiking.
〈非正式〉搭便车旅行
a long walk and a hitch back to Capel Curig
Synonyms
car ride, ride, run, drive, transportation, journey
4North American informal A period of service.
〈北美，非正式〉服役期
his 12-year hitch in the navy
他在海军的12年服役期。
Example sentencesExamples
- On the troop ship home were a bunch of criminals - American soldiers who had spent most of their hitch in the brig.
- The Admiral recruited me after I had served a hitch in the Navy.
- Americans in uniform, whether they serve for one hitch or an entire career, are taught to view themselves as professionals.

Phrases

get hitched

informal Marry.
〈非正式〉结婚
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm reminded of a story my pa told me about how he got hitched.
- Two friends of mine got hitched at this year's Glastonbury Festival - it helps when you know the guy on stage and he does the asking.
- Last weekend, for example, my friends Josh and Heather got hitched.
- The soaring cost of getting married has inspired a council to help couples get hitched on the cheap.
- But she was married at the time and Gene had been married and divorced and in no big hurry to get hitched again.
- The pair met on the set of her latest film, ‘Sugar And Spice’ and got hitched three weeks ago in Northern California.
- As she knocked back the booze she told pals it was only a matter of time until she got hitched to the Babyshambles frontman.
- The couple, who have both been married before, are getting hitched at St John's Church on Saturday.
- The 41-year-old got hitched to Michelle Farthing at St Matthew's Church in Little Lever before a crowd of 80 people.
- They met in actors' high school - Professional Children's School in Manhattan - and swiftly got hitched at a quaint country church.
Synonyms
marry, get married, wed, become man and wife, pledge one's troth, plight one's troth

hitch one's wagon to a star

Try to succeed by forming a relationship with someone who is already successful.
攀龙附凤；试图靠沾别人的光而成功
Example sentencesExamples
- At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become rich and famous.
- But much better things are coming, and I'd rather hitch my wagon to a star than to a toad.
- Ginny had to learn a lesson - to hitch her wagon to a star, but not to lose sight of the job at hand.
- Now then, let's hitch our wagon to a star as we soak ourselves in the Ananda of Yaman.
- With a dream deep in his heart, a man is spontaneously driven to hitch his wagon to a star.
- It starts with the head coach, who might be said to heed Ralph Waldo Emerson, and hitch his wagon to a star.
- You see, I think the little mammy would have had him hitch his wagon to a star… and the star was too far off.
- Diya is all prepared to hitch her wagon to a star.
- Fifty years ago, Ben Chapman went to Hollywood to hitch his wagon to a star and ended up as just another guy in a rubber suit.
- We should aim for the very highest: hitch our wagon to a star so to speak.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 1 of the verb): of unknown origin.

The earliest sense of hitch was ‘to move or lift up with a jerk’. The meaning ‘to fasten or tether’ dates from the early 17th century, and is the one that features in such expressions as to get hitched for get married and to hitch your wagon to a star. The US philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced this second phrase in 1870 in the sense ‘to have high aspirations’. A hitch meaning ‘an obstacle’ is probably from the word's use to mean ‘a knot in a rope’.

Rhymes

bewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, glitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch

Definition of hitch in US English:

hitch

verbhɪtʃhiCH

1with object, and adverbial of direction Move (something) into a different position with a jerk.
急拉，猛推
she hitched the blanket around him
她猛拉裹在他身上的羊毛毯。
he hitched his pants up
他急忙把裤子向上拉起。
Example sentencesExamples
- After he had moved on to other news, Ara hitched her rucksack higher on her back, prepared to go to her glade.
- Best to hitch up our Fafbelts and get used to him right.
- I hitched my pack into a more comfortable position and grimaced.
- As skirts were hitched up and ties loosened, out came the blue Rimmel eyeliners and the Body Shop blushers.
- Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes.
- I hop across the lounge between wheelchair and sofa - he hitches up his right foot and copies me.
- Gnat walks up to a mirror, hitches her shirt up, sticks out her tongue.
- The clerk reached for the phone; I hitched my pants and vamoosed.
- Lift up the right hip as far as it will go, hitching it up towards the ribcage.
- Mac hitched the blanket higher over one shoulder.
- It was hitched up to reveal an underskirt of a different color and with no hoops or panniers.
- These tunics were usually worn to below the knee, but during travel they were hitched up by a belt to make walking easier.
- ‘Some strange types round these parts, lady,’ as he spat his tobacco, hitched his pajamas and banged the gate behind us.
Synonyms
pull, jerk, hike, lift, raise
2informal no object Travel by hitchhiking.
〈非正式〉搭便车旅行
Example sentencesExamples
- We hitched in pairs and, as a general rule, we'd all meet up outside the cathedral of whichever city we were heading for.
- I'd been hitching around Australia and New Zealand not knowing what was happening to my sight, so at least it all made sense.
- Even hitching to Brighton, where I have supportive friends, would be a nightmare from here.
- I've seen a few people hitching with suitcases, but that's weird.
- Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec - ‘if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French’.
- Delighted at the chance to escape the mayhem, I hitched along with him.
- There was the student hitching on a road outside Maynooth.
- We'd save money by hitching and sleeping in train stations or anywhere we could doss down for a couple of hours.
- There's an unspoken rule when hitching that polite listening is compulsory, arguing outlawed.
- So at the start of the summer holidays I hitched to Birmingham, found a studio that swallowed my false ID and got both nipples done.
- I hitched out to Joshua Tree to go rock climbing.
- I had left Peshawar early in the morning the day before, and hitched out of town on a succession of brightly painted trucks.
- Unlike the Paris to Dakar rally, where every car has a support vehicle, if we break down in the Sahara we'll be hitching our way out.
- He said he hardly ever picks anyone up, and I said this is the first time I'd successfully hitched.
- Julie Felix came to England in 1964 after leaving California and hitching through Europe with a duffel bag and guitar.
- She says she had always hoped to go back to Russia, after spending her gap-year there while all her friends were hitching around India.
- If you're hitching on an interstate it's best to try to hitch from highway onramps.
- The two of them trekked and hitched across Iran, relying on the kindness of strangers.
- They are believed to have hitched South and made a new life for themselves near Clones, Co.
Synonyms
hitch-hike
1. 2.1with object Obtain (a ride) by hitchhiking.
  〈非正式〉搭便车旅行
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below.
  Treading the beat and hitching rides around the vast air base, he is constantly on the move checking on his international flock.
  The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage.
  Children are dicing with death hitching rides on the back of moving vehicles.
  Jo Jo was hitching rides down to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, when she disappeared.
  Synonyms
  hitch-hike, ask for, request, signal for
3with object Fasten or tether with a rope.
（用绳索）拴，系
he returned to where he had hitched his horse
他回到他拴马的地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping.
- In the city's photographic market, which is still largely hitched to 35 mm, digital is confined to the lower end and to media professionals.
- But is hitching your company to a star really the right move?
- This they hitched to their truck, and then we drove off to the station.
- They were now behind the church where people pulled up their buggies and carriages and hitched them to the posts that were set up.
- The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending.
- So this week I have been mostly hitching my wagon to VitaminQ's star.
- If you need to hitch a heavy trailer, the suspension can be lowered to a suitable height.
- He is hitching the bullock cart to the New Economy.
- He hitched his wagon to the ideologues who surround him, filtering out those who disagreed, including leaders of his own party and the uniformed military.
- Ross's Maoist back-to-nature fantasies were hitched to theories filched from the 1960s architectural avant-garde.
Synonyms
harness, yoke, couple, fasten, connect, attach, tie, tether, bind
1. 3.1 Harness (a draft animal or team)
  给（一头或一组役畜）上轭具
  Thomas hitched the pony to his cart
  托马斯把马驹套在车上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The horses had been hitched to it, and Jairdan, who was driving, was already in the driver's seat.
  He caught up with her as she moved to hitch the saddle over Tempest's back.
  At the end of a day's fishing, the day's catch was loaded into a cart, and the dog was hitched up to haul the load into town.
  Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable.
  Reining his horse up beside Barranca he ground hitched him hoping that nothing would startle the gelding.
  The horses were hitched up to a nearby tree, untacked, and seemed to be getting along with each other fine.
  Red already had the team hitched for her, so she kissed Joey goodbye and climbed up in the tall seat.
  The horses were hitched up and finally everything was ready.
  I saw one leading Angel Wing up to the lead cart and hitching him to the other horses there.
  ‘He's too fine a beast to be hitched to do this kind of work,’ he protested.
  Synonyms
  harness, yoke, saddle, bridle, hitch up, couple

nounhɪtʃhiCH

1A temporary interruption or problem.
故障
everything went without a hitch
一切顺利，毫无故障。
Example sentencesExamples
- Blogger worked without a hitch, and I feel fine.
- It wasn't easy to do, but English class finally started without a hitch and my headache remained in the back corner of my mind.
- And while, certainly, they do, many, many more trials go off without a hitch.
- The five pools at the spacious new $16.3 million centre are now tiled and have been filled and tested - without a hitch.
- I'm not saying the battle plan has gone without a hitch.
- Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch.
- How can they remember if they had encountered computer hitches over the past two or three months?
- Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive.
- For some reason, software that had worked earlier without a hitch had waited until election night to omit eight precincts in the tally.
- Thanks to Maureen Kidd who was responsible for all the arrangements and, in her usual efficient planning, everything went without a hitch.
- Judith Leach, principal of the girls' school, said the exams, which began at 8.30 am and ended promptly at 1 pm, ran without a hitch.
- I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch.
- For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch!
- And the good news is the European Space Agency's Mars Express appears to have gone into orbit around Mars without a hitch.
- And hopefully, the elections will go without a hitch.
- Anyway, the show went on without a hitch or a bullet.
- Luckily, the surgery was completed without a hitch and the patient was informed of the problem.
- The competition went smoothly and without any major hitches all the way up to the ninth-graders.
- The first was put up without a hitch on Wednesday.
- The good news is that it all went without a hitch.
Synonyms
problem, difficulty, issue, snag, setback, catch, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, complication, impediment, barrier, stumbling block, block, trouble
2A knot used for fastening a rope to another rope or something else.
Example sentencesExamples
- Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp.
- Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots.
1. 2.1North American A device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle.
  〈北美〉（尤指机动车的拖杆）牵引装置
  a trailer hitch
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's a factory crew cab that's low enough to accommodate a gooseneck hitch.
  To install, slide the unit into place, pin it, and plug its electrical hookup into a lighter/accessory port or the standard hitch wiring.
  Some rear bumpers may come with a built-in step or a trailer hitch that will add more functionality to your Chevrolet pickup or SUV.
  I don't own a boat, but I have a pickup and trailer with a hitch just in case.
  These pieces of equipment can be easily attached to a trailer hitch and taken from a job site.
  This is a $40,000 truck, with a serious trailer hitch on it.
  Headlights, brush guard and trailer hitch without ball are standard features.
  Trailers and towable equipment should use quality trailer hitch or kingpin locks.
  Most front mounted hitches are used for off road front mounted winches.
  Cadillac's pickup is so fancy that a trailer hitch is optional.
  The wagon was parked directly in front of another car with a towing hitch and a speedboat directly behind it.
  A gooseneck hitch mount may require lubrication and should be checked for condition, especially the adjustment bolts on the tongue tube.
  How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch?
  He has access to a welding machine and can do such things as weld a trailer hitch for himself.
  If a trailer starts to sway, it transfers this motion to the back of the car through the hitch.
  Simply attach a trailer ball to the ATV's back hitch and your powerful machine becomes a hauling wonder.
  Certainly the system has not been without its hitches, particularly for fleets.
  Their hand crafted tow hitches have ‘custom’ written all over them in invisible letters.
  I welded a bracket with a pad for bolting a vise to the square tubing that fits into the receiver hitch on the rear of my pickup.
  This is required in all 50 states and should never be hooked onto the receiver hitch or wrapped around the bumper.
3informal An act of hitchhiking.
搭便车
Synonyms
car ride, ride, run, drive, transportation, journey
4North American informal A period of service.
〈北美，非正式〉服役期
his 12-year hitch in the navy
他在海军的12年服役期。
Example sentencesExamples
- On the troop ship home were a bunch of criminals - American soldiers who had spent most of their hitch in the brig.
- The Admiral recruited me after I had served a hitch in the Navy.
- Americans in uniform, whether they serve for one hitch or an entire career, are taught to view themselves as professionals.

Phrases

get hitched

informal Marry.
〈非正式〉结婚
Example sentencesExamples
- The pair met on the set of her latest film, ‘Sugar And Spice’ and got hitched three weeks ago in Northern California.
- Last weekend, for example, my friends Josh and Heather got hitched.
- The soaring cost of getting married has inspired a council to help couples get hitched on the cheap.
- Two friends of mine got hitched at this year's Glastonbury Festival - it helps when you know the guy on stage and he does the asking.
- As she knocked back the booze she told pals it was only a matter of time until she got hitched to the Babyshambles frontman.
- They met in actors' high school - Professional Children's School in Manhattan - and swiftly got hitched at a quaint country church.
- The couple, who have both been married before, are getting hitched at St John's Church on Saturday.
- I'm reminded of a story my pa told me about how he got hitched.
- But she was married at the time and Gene had been married and divorced and in no big hurry to get hitched again.
- The 41-year-old got hitched to Michelle Farthing at St Matthew's Church in Little Lever before a crowd of 80 people.
Synonyms
marry, get married, wed, become man and wife, pledge one's troth, plight one's troth

hitch one's wagon to a star

Try to succeed by forming a relationship with someone who is already successful.
攀龙附凤；试图靠沾别人的光而成功
Example sentencesExamples
- Fifty years ago, Ben Chapman went to Hollywood to hitch his wagon to a star and ended up as just another guy in a rubber suit.
- We should aim for the very highest: hitch our wagon to a star so to speak.
- With a dream deep in his heart, a man is spontaneously driven to hitch his wagon to a star.
- It starts with the head coach, who might be said to heed Ralph Waldo Emerson, and hitch his wagon to a star.
- Now then, let's hitch our wagon to a star as we soak ourselves in the Ananda of Yaman.
- But much better things are coming, and I'd rather hitch my wagon to a star than to a toad.
- Ginny had to learn a lesson - to hitch her wagon to a star, but not to lose sight of the job at hand.
- Diya is all prepared to hitch her wagon to a star.
- You see, I think the little mammy would have had him hitch his wagon to a star… and the star was too far off.
- At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become rich and famous.

Origin

Middle English (in hitch (sense 1 of the verb)): of unknown origin.

单词	hitch
释义	Definition of hitch in English: hitch verb hɪtʃhɪtʃ 1with object, and adverbial of direction Move (something) into a different position with a jerk. 急拉，猛推 she hitched up her skirt and ran Example sentencesExamples As skirts were hitched up and ties loosened, out came the blue Rimmel eyeliners and the Body Shop blushers. Mac hitched the blanket higher over one shoulder. Lift up the right hip as far as it will go, hitching it up towards the ribcage. These tunics were usually worn to below the knee, but during travel they were hitched up by a belt to make walking easier. After he had moved on to other news, Ara hitched her rucksack higher on her back, prepared to go to her glade. The clerk reached for the phone; I hitched my pants and vamoosed. I hop across the lounge between wheelchair and sofa - he hitches up his right foot and copies me. Best to hitch up our Fafbelts and get used to him right. ‘Some strange types round these parts, lady,’ as he spat his tobacco, hitched his pajamas and banged the gate behind us. Gnat walks up to a mirror, hitches her shirt up, sticks out her tongue. I hitched my pack into a more comfortable position and grimaced. Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes. It was hitched up to reveal an underskirt of a different color and with no hoops or panniers. Synonyms pull, jerk, hike, lift, raise informal yank 2informal no object Travel by hitch-hiking. 〈非正式〉搭便车旅行 they hitched to Birmingham Example sentencesExamples She says she had always hoped to go back to Russia, after spending her gap-year there while all her friends were hitching around India. If you're hitching on an interstate it's best to try to hitch from highway onramps. I've seen a few people hitching with suitcases, but that's weird. He said he hardly ever picks anyone up, and I said this is the first time I'd successfully hitched. The two of them trekked and hitched across Iran, relying on the kindness of strangers. I had left Peshawar early in the morning the day before, and hitched out of town on a succession of brightly painted trucks. There was the student hitching on a road outside Maynooth. There's an unspoken rule when hitching that polite listening is compulsory, arguing outlawed. Unlike the Paris to Dakar rally, where every car has a support vehicle, if we break down in the Sahara we'll be hitching our way out. Even hitching to Brighton, where I have supportive friends, would be a nightmare from here. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec - ‘if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French’. So at the start of the summer holidays I hitched to Birmingham, found a studio that swallowed my false ID and got both nipples done. Julie Felix came to England in 1964 after leaving California and hitching through Europe with a duffel bag and guitar. They are believed to have hitched South and made a new life for themselves near Clones, Co. We hitched in pairs and, as a general rule, we'd all meet up outside the cathedral of whichever city we were heading for. I'd been hitching around Australia and New Zealand not knowing what was happening to my sight, so at least it all made sense. Delighted at the chance to escape the mayhem, I hitched along with him. I hitched out to Joshua Tree to go rock climbing. We'd save money by hitching and sleeping in train stations or anywhere we could doss down for a couple of hours. Synonyms hitch-hike informal thumb a lift, hitch a lift 2.1with object Obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. 〈非正式〉搭便车旅行 I hitched a ride up the road Example sentencesExamples Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below. Jo Jo was hitching rides down to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, when she disappeared. Treading the beat and hitching rides around the vast air base, he is constantly on the move checking on his international flock. Children are dicing with death hitching rides on the back of moving vehicles. The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage. Synonyms hitch-hike, ask for, request, signal for 3with object Fasten or tether. （用绳索）拴，系 he returned to where he had hitched his horse 他回到他拴马的地方。 Example sentencesExamples In the city's photographic market, which is still largely hitched to 35 mm, digital is confined to the lower end and to media professionals. They were now behind the church where people pulled up their buggies and carriages and hitched them to the posts that were set up. He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping. The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending. He is hitching the bullock cart to the New Economy. If you need to hitch a heavy trailer, the suspension can be lowered to a suitable height. He hitched his wagon to the ideologues who surround him, filtering out those who disagreed, including leaders of his own party and the uniformed military. So this week I have been mostly hitching my wagon to VitaminQ's star. This they hitched to their truck, and then we drove off to the station. But is hitching your company to a star really the right move? Ross's Maoist back-to-nature fantasies were hitched to theories filched from the 1960s architectural avant-garde. Synonyms harness, yoke, couple, fasten, connect, attach, tie, tether, bind 3.1 Harness (a draught animal or team) 给（一头或一组役畜）上轭具 Thomas hitched the pony to his cart 托马斯把马驹套在车上。 Example sentencesExamples Reining his horse up beside Barranca he ground hitched him hoping that nothing would startle the gelding. Red already had the team hitched for her, so she kissed Joey goodbye and climbed up in the tall seat. The horses were hitched up and finally everything was ready. The horses had been hitched to it, and Jairdan, who was driving, was already in the driver's seat. He caught up with her as she moved to hitch the saddle over Tempest's back. ‘He's too fine a beast to be hitched to do this kind of work,’ he protested. I saw one leading Angel Wing up to the lead cart and hitching him to the other horses there. At the end of a day's fishing, the day's catch was loaded into a cart, and the dog was hitched up to haul the load into town. Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable. The horses were hitched up to a nearby tree, untacked, and seemed to be getting along with each other fine. Synonyms harness, yoke, saddle, bridle, hitch up, couple noun hɪtʃhɪtʃ 1A temporary difficulty or problem. 故障 everything went without a hitch 一切顺利，毫无故障。 Example sentencesExamples The competition went smoothly and without any major hitches all the way up to the ninth-graders. For some reason, software that had worked earlier without a hitch had waited until election night to omit eight precincts in the tally. And hopefully, the elections will go without a hitch. Thanks to Maureen Kidd who was responsible for all the arrangements and, in her usual efficient planning, everything went without a hitch. And while, certainly, they do, many, many more trials go off without a hitch. And the good news is the European Space Agency's Mars Express appears to have gone into orbit around Mars without a hitch. Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive. Judith Leach, principal of the girls' school, said the exams, which began at 8.30 am and ended promptly at 1 pm, ran without a hitch. Luckily, the surgery was completed without a hitch and the patient was informed of the problem. Blogger worked without a hitch, and I feel fine. Anyway, the show went on without a hitch or a bullet. I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch. For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch! I'm not saying the battle plan has gone without a hitch. The first was put up without a hitch on Wednesday. Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch. The five pools at the spacious new $16.3 million centre are now tiled and have been filled and tested - without a hitch. How can they remember if they had encountered computer hitches over the past two or three months? It wasn't easy to do, but English class finally started without a hitch and my headache remained in the back corner of my mind. The good news is that it all went without a hitch. Synonyms problem, difficulty, issue, snag, setback, catch, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, complication, impediment, barrier, stumbling block, block, trouble hold-up, interruption, delay, check, stoppage informal headache, glitch, hiccup British informal spanner in the works North American informal monkey wrench in the works 2A knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. （尤指把绳子系在某物上的）索结 Example sentencesExamples Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp. Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots. 2.1North American A device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. 〈北美〉（尤指机动车的拖杆）牵引装置 Example sentencesExamples If a trailer starts to sway, it transfers this motion to the back of the car through the hitch. The wagon was parked directly in front of another car with a towing hitch and a speedboat directly behind it. These pieces of equipment can be easily attached to a trailer hitch and taken from a job site. This is a $40,000 truck, with a serious trailer hitch on it. I welded a bracket with a pad for bolting a vise to the square tubing that fits into the receiver hitch on the rear of my pickup. Their hand crafted tow hitches have ‘custom’ written all over them in invisible letters. Trailers and towable equipment should use quality trailer hitch or kingpin locks. This is required in all 50 states and should never be hooked onto the receiver hitch or wrapped around the bumper. Simply attach a trailer ball to the ATV's back hitch and your powerful machine becomes a hauling wonder. To install, slide the unit into place, pin it, and plug its electrical hookup into a lighter/accessory port or the standard hitch wiring. Certainly the system has not been without its hitches, particularly for fleets. I don't own a boat, but I have a pickup and trailer with a hitch just in case. How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch? Cadillac's pickup is so fancy that a trailer hitch is optional. Most front mounted hitches are used for off road front mounted winches. Headlights, brush guard and trailer hitch without ball are standard features. It's a factory crew cab that's low enough to accommodate a gooseneck hitch. A gooseneck hitch mount may require lubrication and should be checked for condition, especially the adjustment bolts on the tongue tube. He has access to a welding machine and can do such things as weld a trailer hitch for himself. Some rear bumpers may come with a built-in step or a trailer hitch that will add more functionality to your Chevrolet pickup or SUV. 3informal An act of hitch-hiking. 〈非正式〉搭便车旅行 a long walk and a hitch back to Capel Curig Synonyms car ride, ride, run, drive, transportation, journey 4North American informal A period of service. 〈北美，非正式〉服役期 his 12-year hitch in the navy 他在海军的12年服役期。 Example sentencesExamples On the troop ship home were a bunch of criminals - American soldiers who had spent most of their hitch in the brig. The Admiral recruited me after I had served a hitch in the Navy. Americans in uniform, whether they serve for one hitch or an entire career, are taught to view themselves as professionals. Phrases get hitched informal Marry. 〈非正式〉结婚 Example sentencesExamples I'm reminded of a story my pa told me about how he got hitched. Two friends of mine got hitched at this year's Glastonbury Festival - it helps when you know the guy on stage and he does the asking. Last weekend, for example, my friends Josh and Heather got hitched. The soaring cost of getting married has inspired a council to help couples get hitched on the cheap. But she was married at the time and Gene had been married and divorced and in no big hurry to get hitched again. The pair met on the set of her latest film, ‘Sugar And Spice’ and got hitched three weeks ago in Northern California. As she knocked back the booze she told pals it was only a matter of time until she got hitched to the Babyshambles frontman. The couple, who have both been married before, are getting hitched at St John's Church on Saturday. The 41-year-old got hitched to Michelle Farthing at St Matthew's Church in Little Lever before a crowd of 80 people. They met in actors' high school - Professional Children's School in Manhattan - and swiftly got hitched at a quaint country church. Synonyms marry, get married, wed, become man and wife, pledge one's troth, plight one's troth hitch one's wagon to a star Try to succeed by forming a relationship with someone who is already successful. 攀龙附凤；试图靠沾别人的光而成功 Example sentencesExamples At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become rich and famous. But much better things are coming, and I'd rather hitch my wagon to a star than to a toad. Ginny had to learn a lesson - to hitch her wagon to a star, but not to lose sight of the job at hand. Now then, let's hitch our wagon to a star as we soak ourselves in the Ananda of Yaman. With a dream deep in his heart, a man is spontaneously driven to hitch his wagon to a star. It starts with the head coach, who might be said to heed Ralph Waldo Emerson, and hitch his wagon to a star. You see, I think the little mammy would have had him hitch his wagon to a star… and the star was too far off. Diya is all prepared to hitch her wagon to a star. Fifty years ago, Ben Chapman went to Hollywood to hitch his wagon to a star and ended up as just another guy in a rubber suit. We should aim for the very highest: hitch our wagon to a star so to speak. Origin Middle English (in sense 1 of the verb): of unknown origin. The earliest sense of hitch was ‘to move or lift up with a jerk’. The meaning ‘to fasten or tether’ dates from the early 17th century, and is the one that features in such expressions as to get hitched for get married and to hitch your wagon to a star. The US philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced this second phrase in 1870 in the sense ‘to have high aspirations’. A hitch meaning ‘an obstacle’ is probably from the word's use to mean ‘a knot in a rope’. Rhymes bewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, glitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch verb.1 phr. Definition of hitch in US English: hitch verbhɪtʃhiCH 1with object, and adverbial of direction Move (something) into a different position with a jerk. 急拉，猛推 she hitched the blanket around him 她猛拉裹在他身上的羊毛毯。 he hitched his pants up 他急忙把裤子向上拉起。 Example sentencesExamples After he had moved on to other news, Ara hitched her rucksack higher on her back, prepared to go to her glade. Best to hitch up our Fafbelts and get used to him right. I hitched my pack into a more comfortable position and grimaced. As skirts were hitched up and ties loosened, out came the blue Rimmel eyeliners and the Body Shop blushers. Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes. I hop across the lounge between wheelchair and sofa - he hitches up his right foot and copies me. Gnat walks up to a mirror, hitches her shirt up, sticks out her tongue. The clerk reached for the phone; I hitched my pants and vamoosed. Lift up the right hip as far as it will go, hitching it up towards the ribcage. Mac hitched the blanket higher over one shoulder. It was hitched up to reveal an underskirt of a different color and with no hoops or panniers. These tunics were usually worn to below the knee, but during travel they were hitched up by a belt to make walking easier. ‘Some strange types round these parts, lady,’ as he spat his tobacco, hitched his pajamas and banged the gate behind us. Synonyms pull, jerk, hike, lift, raise 2informal no object Travel by hitchhiking. 〈非正式〉搭便车旅行 Example sentencesExamples We hitched in pairs and, as a general rule, we'd all meet up outside the cathedral of whichever city we were heading for. I'd been hitching around Australia and New Zealand not knowing what was happening to my sight, so at least it all made sense. Even hitching to Brighton, where I have supportive friends, would be a nightmare from here. I've seen a few people hitching with suitcases, but that's weird. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec - ‘if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French’. Delighted at the chance to escape the mayhem, I hitched along with him. There was the student hitching on a road outside Maynooth. We'd save money by hitching and sleeping in train stations or anywhere we could doss down for a couple of hours. There's an unspoken rule when hitching that polite listening is compulsory, arguing outlawed. So at the start of the summer holidays I hitched to Birmingham, found a studio that swallowed my false ID and got both nipples done. I hitched out to Joshua Tree to go rock climbing. I had left Peshawar early in the morning the day before, and hitched out of town on a succession of brightly painted trucks. Unlike the Paris to Dakar rally, where every car has a support vehicle, if we break down in the Sahara we'll be hitching our way out. He said he hardly ever picks anyone up, and I said this is the first time I'd successfully hitched. Julie Felix came to England in 1964 after leaving California and hitching through Europe with a duffel bag and guitar. She says she had always hoped to go back to Russia, after spending her gap-year there while all her friends were hitching around India. If you're hitching on an interstate it's best to try to hitch from highway onramps. The two of them trekked and hitched across Iran, relying on the kindness of strangers. They are believed to have hitched South and made a new life for themselves near Clones, Co. Synonyms hitch-hike 2.1with object Obtain (a ride) by hitchhiking. 〈非正式〉搭便车旅行 Example sentencesExamples Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below. Treading the beat and hitching rides around the vast air base, he is constantly on the move checking on his international flock. The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage. Children are dicing with death hitching rides on the back of moving vehicles. Jo Jo was hitching rides down to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, when she disappeared. Synonyms hitch-hike, ask for, request, signal for 3with object Fasten or tether with a rope. （用绳索）拴，系 he returned to where he had hitched his horse 他回到他拴马的地方。 Example sentencesExamples He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping. In the city's photographic market, which is still largely hitched to 35 mm, digital is confined to the lower end and to media professionals. But is hitching your company to a star really the right move? This they hitched to their truck, and then we drove off to the station. They were now behind the church where people pulled up their buggies and carriages and hitched them to the posts that were set up. The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending. So this week I have been mostly hitching my wagon to VitaminQ's star. If you need to hitch a heavy trailer, the suspension can be lowered to a suitable height. He is hitching the bullock cart to the New Economy. He hitched his wagon to the ideologues who surround him, filtering out those who disagreed, including leaders of his own party and the uniformed military. Ross's Maoist back-to-nature fantasies were hitched to theories filched from the 1960s architectural avant-garde. Synonyms harness, yoke, couple, fasten, connect, attach, tie, tether, bind 3.1 Harness (a draft animal or team) 给（一头或一组役畜）上轭具 Thomas hitched the pony to his cart 托马斯把马驹套在车上。 Example sentencesExamples The horses had been hitched to it, and Jairdan, who was driving, was already in the driver's seat. He caught up with her as she moved to hitch the saddle over Tempest's back. At the end of a day's fishing, the day's catch was loaded into a cart, and the dog was hitched up to haul the load into town. Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable. Reining his horse up beside Barranca he ground hitched him hoping that nothing would startle the gelding. The horses were hitched up to a nearby tree, untacked, and seemed to be getting along with each other fine. Red already had the team hitched for her, so she kissed Joey goodbye and climbed up in the tall seat. The horses were hitched up and finally everything was ready. I saw one leading Angel Wing up to the lead cart and hitching him to the other horses there. ‘He's too fine a beast to be hitched to do this kind of work,’ he protested. Synonyms harness, yoke, saddle, bridle, hitch up, couple nounhɪtʃhiCH 1A temporary interruption or problem. 故障 everything went without a hitch 一切顺利，毫无故障。 Example sentencesExamples Blogger worked without a hitch, and I feel fine. It wasn't easy to do, but English class finally started without a hitch and my headache remained in the back corner of my mind. And while, certainly, they do, many, many more trials go off without a hitch. The five pools at the spacious new $16.3 million centre are now tiled and have been filled and tested - without a hitch. I'm not saying the battle plan has gone without a hitch. Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch. How can they remember if they had encountered computer hitches over the past two or three months? Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive. For some reason, software that had worked earlier without a hitch had waited until election night to omit eight precincts in the tally. Thanks to Maureen Kidd who was responsible for all the arrangements and, in her usual efficient planning, everything went without a hitch. Judith Leach, principal of the girls' school, said the exams, which began at 8.30 am and ended promptly at 1 pm, ran without a hitch. I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch. For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch! And the good news is the European Space Agency's Mars Express appears to have gone into orbit around Mars without a hitch. And hopefully, the elections will go without a hitch. Anyway, the show went on without a hitch or a bullet. Luckily, the surgery was completed without a hitch and the patient was informed of the problem. The competition went smoothly and without any major hitches all the way up to the ninth-graders. The first was put up without a hitch on Wednesday. The good news is that it all went without a hitch. Synonyms problem, difficulty, issue, snag, setback, catch, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, complication, impediment, barrier, stumbling block, block, trouble 2A knot used for fastening a rope to another rope or something else. Example sentencesExamples Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp. Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots. 2.1North American A device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. 〈北美〉（尤指机动车的拖杆）牵引装置 a trailer hitch Example sentencesExamples It's a factory crew cab that's low enough to accommodate a gooseneck hitch. To install, slide the unit into place, pin it, and plug its electrical hookup into a lighter/accessory port or the standard hitch wiring. Some rear bumpers may come with a built-in step or a trailer hitch that will add more functionality to your Chevrolet pickup or SUV. I don't own a boat, but I have a pickup and trailer with a hitch just in case. These pieces of equipment can be easily attached to a trailer hitch and taken from a job site. This is a $40,000 truck, with a serious trailer hitch on it. Headlights, brush guard and trailer hitch without ball are standard features. Trailers and towable equipment should use quality trailer hitch or kingpin locks. Most front mounted hitches are used for off road front mounted winches. Cadillac's pickup is so fancy that a trailer hitch is optional. The wagon was parked directly in front of another car with a towing hitch and a speedboat directly behind it. A gooseneck hitch mount may require lubrication and should be checked for condition, especially the adjustment bolts on the tongue tube. How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch? He has access to a welding machine and can do such things as weld a trailer hitch for himself. If a trailer starts to sway, it transfers this motion to the back of the car through the hitch. Simply attach a trailer ball to the ATV's back hitch and your powerful machine becomes a hauling wonder. Certainly the system has not been without its hitches, particularly for fleets. Their hand crafted tow hitches have ‘custom’ written all over them in invisible letters. I welded a bracket with a pad for bolting a vise to the square tubing that fits into the receiver hitch on the rear of my pickup. This is required in all 50 states and should never be hooked onto the receiver hitch or wrapped around the bumper. 3informal An act of hitchhiking. 搭便车 Synonyms car ride, ride, run, drive, transportation, journey 4North American informal A period of service. 〈北美，非正式〉服役期 his 12-year hitch in the navy 他在海军的12年服役期。 Example sentencesExamples On the troop ship home were a bunch of criminals - American soldiers who had spent most of their hitch in the brig. The Admiral recruited me after I had served a hitch in the Navy. Americans in uniform, whether they serve for one hitch or an entire career, are taught to view themselves as professionals. Phrases get hitched informal Marry. 〈非正式〉结婚 Example sentencesExamples The pair met on the set of her latest film, ‘Sugar And Spice’ and got hitched three weeks ago in Northern California. Last weekend, for example, my friends Josh and Heather got hitched. The soaring cost of getting married has inspired a council to help couples get hitched on the cheap. Two friends of mine got hitched at this year's Glastonbury Festival - it helps when you know the guy on stage and he does the asking. As she knocked back the booze she told pals it was only a matter of time until she got hitched to the Babyshambles frontman. They met in actors' high school - Professional Children's School in Manhattan - and swiftly got hitched at a quaint country church. The couple, who have both been married before, are getting hitched at St John's Church on Saturday. I'm reminded of a story my pa told me about how he got hitched. But she was married at the time and Gene had been married and divorced and in no big hurry to get hitched again. The 41-year-old got hitched to Michelle Farthing at St Matthew's Church in Little Lever before a crowd of 80 people. Synonyms marry, get married, wed, become man and wife, pledge one's troth, plight one's troth hitch one's wagon to a star Try to succeed by forming a relationship with someone who is already successful. 攀龙附凤；试图靠沾别人的光而成功 Example sentencesExamples Fifty years ago, Ben Chapman went to Hollywood to hitch his wagon to a star and ended up as just another guy in a rubber suit. We should aim for the very highest: hitch our wagon to a star so to speak. With a dream deep in his heart, a man is spontaneously driven to hitch his wagon to a star. It starts with the head coach, who might be said to heed Ralph Waldo Emerson, and hitch his wagon to a star. Now then, let's hitch our wagon to a star as we soak ourselves in the Ananda of Yaman. But much better things are coming, and I'd rather hitch my wagon to a star than to a toad. Ginny had to learn a lesson - to hitch her wagon to a star, but not to lose sight of the job at hand. Diya is all prepared to hitch her wagon to a star. You see, I think the little mammy would have had him hitch his wagon to a star… and the star was too far off. At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become rich and famous. Origin Middle English (in hitch (sense 1 of the verb)): of unknown origin. verb.1 phr.
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