hitch a ride 的定义
- Also, thumb a ride. Solicit a free ride, especially by hitchhiking. For example, I've no car; can I hitch a ride home with you? or He was hoping to thumb a ride to the stadium. The verb hitch here alludes to walking unevenly, presumably to hop into a car or truck; raising one's thumb is the traditional signal for stopping a car on the road. [First half of 1900s]
hitch a ride 近义词
等同于 ride
更多hitch a ride例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- I told them it was back where I parked my car, so they offered me a ride.
- I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- “They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- Possibly, he would not shy at such monstrosities after twenty miles of a lathering ride.
- The other day an excursion was arranged to Sondershausen, a town about three hours' ride from Weimar in the cars.