hitch one's wagon to a star

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1. Aim high, as in Bill's hitching his wagon to a star—he plans to be a partner by age thirty. This metaphoric expression was invented by essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1870.

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hitch one's wagon to a star

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with harness that does not belong to it.

From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Macy, John Albert