"hitch one's wagon to" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hitches one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitching one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitched one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitched one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "hitch one's wagon to (third-person singular simple present hitches one's wagon to, present participle hitching one's wagon to, simple past and past participle hitched one's wagon to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "hitch one's wagon to a star"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to rely on (someone or something) for success"
      ],
      "id": "en-hitch_one's_wagon_to-en-verb-zpi8nhI-",
      "links": [
        [
          "rely",
          "rely"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, idiomatic, informal) to rely on (someone or something) for success"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitch one's wagon to"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hitch one's wagon to a star"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hitches one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitching one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitched one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitched one's wagon to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "hitch one's wagon to (third-person singular simple present hitches one's wagon to, present participle hitching one's wagon to, simple past and past participle hitched one's wagon to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to rely on (someone or something) for success"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rely",
          "rely"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, idiomatic, informal) to rely on (someone or something) for success"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitch one's wagon to"
}