To hit one where he lives, verb. phr. (American).—To touch in a tender part; to hurt the feelings; to touch on the raw (q.v.).
Hit (or struck) with, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Taken; enamoured; prepossessed. Also, hit up with.
1891. Tales from Town Topics. ‘Count Candawles,’ p. 28. She is very amusing, but the Count cannot be really hit with such a little mountebank.
Hit on the tail, verb. phr. (old venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.
d. 1529. Skelton, Bowge of Courte. How oft he hit Jonet on the tayle.
Hit in the teeth, verb. phr. (old).—To reproach; to taunt; to fling in one’s face.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson’s Wedding, ii., 6 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 431). They are always hitting me in the teeth with a man of my coat.
Hitch, verb (American).—1. To marry. Hitched = married.
1867. Browne, Artemus Ward’s Courtship, People’s ed., p. 23. If you mean getting hitched, I’m in.
1883. L. Oliphant, Altiora Peto, II., xxix., 156. ‘How long is it since we parted, Ned?’ ‘A matter of five years; and it wasn’t my fault if we didn’t stay hitched till now.’