hitch one's wagon toとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

hitch one's wagon to (三人称単数 現在形 hitches one's wagon to, 現在分詞 hitching one's wagon to, 過去形および過去分詞形 hitched one's wagon to)

1. (chiefly US, idiomatic, informal) to rely on (someone または something) for success
   • 2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown:

     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 wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life.