Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “hitch a ride” and its meaning is “to stand at a roadside and raise your thumb in the air to signal that you are asking for a free ride/lift in a passing vehicle”.
Example Sentence: The UK government wants to maximise public protection and accelerate economic recovery. Neither goal is dispensable. Other European countries are in the same bind, desperate to prod their populations and visiting tourists into a summer spending spree, only to find that the virus hitched a ride on the holiday bus.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Boris Johnson’s rise to power taught him all the wrong skills for a Covid crisis and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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