hitch up

Five months before the general election, he’s still not a declared candidate for any office, but he’s hitched up the guessing-game wagon one more time.

The students hitch up backpacks emblazoned with Spider Man and the sisters of “Frozen,” then form two rambunctious lines that follow Alabsi like ducklings through broken streets.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was kind of hitching up its pants to get on a regular schedule, and for a few years thereafter the ceremony was held in November.

Other ambitious self-starters will counsel you to hitch up your trousers and keep at it.

Raizel had discarded her shoes, hat, and petticoat somewhere back, and had a fistful of her skirt hitched up to keep from dragging as she crept closer.