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- Dictionaryhitch/hɪtʃ/
verb
- 1. move (something) into a different position with a jerk: "she hitched up her skirt and ran" Similar
- 2. travel by hitch-hiking: informal "they hitched to Birmingham" Similar
noun
- 1. a temporary difficulty or problem: "everything went without a hitch"
- 2. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else.
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Nov 7, 2015 · to hitch: to move interruptedly or with halts and jerks usually due to an obstruction or impediment. (Webster's Unabridged) As others have noted in the comments, this meaning works with breathing very well. Very well. I say an article criticizing the use of that phrase and that got me thinking (more like confused).
Oct 24, 2015 · 1. Hitch: To bind by marriage vows; unite in marriage; marry. But I don't recall ever seeing it used in the active, or even the prototypical passive (was hitched). It's nearly always in the form get hitched.
Oct 24, 2011 · do overlap in meaning and can be interchanged (especially if you are talking about a system or a machine). One of the differences between a hitch, obstacle and glitch, fault or defect in a system or a machine is that faults and defects in systems tend to repeat. Since glitches can be considered obstacles there is an overlap, but in general ...
Aug 6, 2019 · 1. I am reading The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. In it, there is a quote: Baley hitched his jacket back [...] so that his blaster butt was ready for snatching. It isn't very clear where the blaster is on Baley's body, so I can think of two possible meanings of hitching back here: The blaster is at his waist, meaning he moves the bottom of ...
Jan 3, 2022 · As aparente001 points out in a comment above, the expressions tend to mean two very different things: "to catch one's breath" is a well-established idiom whose primary meaning is "to recover from exertion" (the implication being that one was "out of breath" and is now in the process of regaining one's normal breathing pattern), while "one's breath caught" means that one's normal breathing was ...
Perhaps you are right. However, if I see "sobbing" in a sentence without a whole lot of context implying otherwise around it, it's pretty much certian I will assume the "1b" meaning. So if you want to be clear that there wasn't any actual crying going on anymore, it would be tough to make this word do the job. –
Aug 1, 2015 · That sentence is almost certainly an exaggeration by someone who has experienced the series of things described in the sentence and has lived to tell the tale. The author just means "held under water [presumably by a collapsed wave] for a long but not fatal or even seriously injurious period of time." – Sven Yargs. Aug 1, 2015 at 4:50.
Feb 4, 2020 · What is the meaning and the origin of the slang term "Miss Thang"? I've checked in the Urban Dictionary. It says that the phrase is about a woman or a gay man who is pretentious, and think she knows everything, and that she is perfect, and it's mainly a term for black women, or at least at the beginning.
Sep 5, 2020 · In the dictionary get married: to become joined in marriage They're planning to get married in October. married (adj): having a husband or wife So, this is what I think we often say "I'm ma...
Oct 4, 2012 · It appears to be more common to understand the “absent friends” toast as referring to live people not in attendance, as well as the dead. There may be some generational or regional differences in interpretation. Example speeches at hitched.co.uk (1, 2) illustrate how common.
