0 a temporary difficulty that causes a short delay: --
1 a particular type of knot: --
2 to get a free ride in someone else's vehicle as a way of travelling: --
3 to fasten something to another thing by tying it with a rope or using a metal hook: --
4 a difficulty or troubling fact esp. in a situation that is generally positive: --
5 to get a free ride in someone else’s road vehicle as a way of traveling: --
The party opposite, as much as anybody, hitched its wagon to consumption.
Of course, by hitching ourselves to the deutschmark, we are hitching ourselves to something that is unpredictable.
Hitches occurred, and the scheme could not go on.
In a vast undertaking of this kind it is natural, that during the opening months of its existence there should be some hitches.
Have there been any hitches in that process?
The tens of thousands of post men and women achieved that in all weathers, generally without any significant hitches and generally on time.
There have been some hitches in construction, but, this being an entirely new project, that could not perhaps be helped.
Once we give such an omnibus term, goodness knows what can be hitched up with it.
