hitch one's wagon to

present singular third person hitches one's wagon to · participle present hitching one's wagon to · participle past hitched one's wagon to · past hitched one's wagon to

1. USidiomaticinformalto rely on (someone or something) for success

   1 more example

   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.

   2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown