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hitch one's wagon to a star
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Aim high, as in Bill's hitching his wagon to a star—he plans to be a partner by age thirty . This metaphoric expression was invented by essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1870.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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