The phrase "as a hitch" is not commonly used in written English and may not be correct in most contexts.
It can be used to refer to a problem or obstacle, often in a casual or informal manner, but it is not widely recognized.
Example: "We were all set for the trip, but as a hitch, the car broke down unexpectedly."
Alternatives: "as a snag" or "as a setback".
But in a subsequent call, she says that there's a hitch that I can scarcely believe qualifies as a hitch.
Sky Masterson, Parker says, is "one of life's naturals," the sort of smoothie who breezes through life without so much as a hitch.
But you can definitely make any company you have editing rights to the owner or subsidiary of any other company without as much as a hitch.
Last night, Australia's first pill testing trial went off without so much as a hitch at Groovin the Moo in Canberra.
It may help if you use a horizontal bar as a hitch to help you tie a Carrick Bend.
I have travelled extensively as a hitch-hiking hippy backpacker sleeping in fields, as a jet-setting criminal staying in five-star hotels, and as a stand-up comedian checking into whatever sleeping accommodation my promoters consider affordable and convenient.
One day in this city of 180,000, two horses grazed in a rural area while tied to the fence's steel beams – with the border fence as a hitching post.
Remarkably, in independently selexed Ile-binding sites we also do not see (and probably exactly for the same reason) the 5'-AUAU-3' tetraplet in which anticodon UAU supposedly drives codon AUA as a hitch-hiker but via the central Ile-irrelevant UA palindrome (in the manuscript, we stress this fact just after describing the arginine case).
It thus appears that codon CGC might have "formally" accompanied (as a hitch-hiker) anticodon GCG in 5'-CGCG-3' via the Arg-unrelated GC dinucleotide, and that is precisely why we chose to deliberately focus our description on 5'-CGCG-3'.
"It went off without a hitch, as far as it goes".
"We are brothers," he said, adding that they would be disarmed without a hitch as soon as it became necessary.
