Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is hitch one’s wagon to and its meaning is “to try to get advantage/benefit from something or someone else’s success or strength by closely associating with it or them”.
Example Sentence: We have long known what needs to be done to control inflation in India, but the agencies responsible for macroeconomic policy ignore this knowledge when they hitch their wagon to the ideology of Anglo-American economics. The consequences are there to see.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article How ideology muddled inflation control in India and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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