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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hitch for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a problem or obstacle that may arise in a situation or plan.
Example: "We encountered a hitch for our travel plans when the flight was canceled unexpectedly."
Alternatives: "a snag in" or "an issue with".
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This final test of speed as well as behavior went off without a hitch for the colt who has bucked the odds to become the 2-1 morning-line fororithefor the Preakness.
His business was putting hitches on cars and trucks, he said, handing me his card and telling me to call him if I ever needed a hitch for, say, a bicycle rack.
The final day of presenting did not go off without a hitch for Naughtie, however, with the line to Sir John Major getting lost during the prime 8.10am interview slot.
BEFORE YOU GO A hitch for travelers is that credit cards are not accepted in Guinea-Bissau, and I found no cash machine in Bissau that took American debit cards to get West African CFA francs, the local currency (there are about 450 francs to the dollar).
We've seen this work quite a few times now, so it should work without a hitch for just about anyone.
But there was a hitch for inmate playwright Dan McMullan.
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But the show went off without a hitch, save for a streaker who invaded the runway after the designers had taken their bows.
In this sense, it all goes off without a hitch, except for one noticeably long scene change in the first act.
The performance on Sunday night, at the Byham, a restored 1904 vaudeville theater in downtown Pittsburgh, went off without a hitch except for the temporary misplacing of Ms. Tauber.
The burglary itself went off largely without a hitch, except for when Mr. Forsyth, the designated lock-picker, had to break into a different entrance than planned when he discovered that the F.B.I. had installed a lock on the main door that he could not pick.
And it might have gone off without a hitch except for a sister, Mary Johnson Lowe, who had been appointed to the Southern District Federal Court by President Jimmy Carter.
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