hitching one's wagon to

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