hitch up
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Now, they live in houses made of bamboo and tin, in neighborhoods where the drains back up in the monsoon and you have to hitch up your sari to wade through the filthy, stinking floodwaters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2018
It's easy to forget after the most stunning blunder in Oscars history, but as Weiss points out, the show had gone off without a hitch up until that final envelope was opened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
“I had to stop and hitch up my britches, or I’d have stumbled. That’s when the Rebels nailed me,” he later said, using the nickname for Ole Miss players.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2017
Yet like its brick-and-mortar cousin Macy's, Nordstrom climbed the previous four years without a hitch, up 83 percent.
From US News ● Jun. 24, 2016
He would take Vernon into town for the meeting, so I showed John how to hitch up Belle and Dimple.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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