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hitch one's wagon to

hitch one's wagon to verb: to rely on (someone or something) for success.

Verb

hitch one's wagon to (third-person singular simple present hitches one's wagon to, present participle hitching one's wagon to, simple past and past participle hitched one's wagon to)

  1. (US, idiomatic, informal) to rely on (someone or something) for success
    • Finally, I wanted to tell a more personal story that might inspire young people considering a life of public service: how my career in politics really started with a search for a place to fit in, a way to explain the different strands of my mixed-up heritage, and how it was only by hitching my...2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown

Forms of hitch one's wagon to

third-person singular presenthitches one's wagon to
present participlehitching one's wagon to
past participlehitched one's wagon to
pasthitched one's wagon to

Words formed from hitch one's wagon to

Questions about hitch one's wagon to

What does hitch one's wagon to mean?
Hitch one's wagon to means to rely on (someone or something) for success.
What part of speech is hitch one's wagon to?
Hitch one's wagon to is a verb.
What is the past tense of hitch one's wagon to?
The past tense of hitch one's wagon to is hitched one's wagon to.

Words near hitch one's wagon to in the dictionary

  1. hitbox
  2. hitboxes
  3. hitch
  4. hitch in one's get-along
  5. hitch in one's giddy-up
  6. hitch one's wagon to
  7. hitch one's wagon to a star
  8. hitch rack
  9. hitch racks
  10. hitch up
  11. hitch-hike

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