hit-and-run
Of or about an accident after which a motorist drives away without giving his name and offering help.
Judges are stern with hit-and-run drivers.
Striking suddenly and leaving quickly.
The bandits often made hit-and-run attacks on wagon trains.
hit-or-miss
hit-and-miss
Unplanned; uncontrolled; aimless; careless.
John did a lot of hit-or-miss reading, some of it about taxes.
Mary packed her bag in hurried, hit-or-miss fashion.
hither and thither
hither and yon
In one direction and then in another.
Bob wandered hither and thither looking for a playmate.
hold a candle to
hold a stick to
To be fit to be compared with; be in the same class with. A trite phrase used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences.
Henry thought that no modern ball club could hold a candle to those of 50 years ago.
hook, line and sinker
Without question or doubt; completely.
Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe's story, hook, line and sinker.
Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook, line and sinker.
Bobby trusted Jim so he was taken in by his hard-luck story hook, line and sinker.
hot and bothered
Excited and worried, displeased, or puzzled. A hackneyed phrase.
Fritz got all hot and bothered when he failed in the test.
Leona was all hot and bothered when her escort was late in coming for her.
Jerry was hot and bothered about his invention when he couldn't get it to work.
It is a small matter; don't get so hot and bothered.
hot and heavy
Strongly; vigorously; emphatically.
Fred got it hot and heavy when his wife found out how much he had lost at cards.
The partners had a hot and heavy argument before deciding to enlarge their store.
hue and cry
An alarm and chase after a supposed wrongdoer; a pursuit usually by shouting men.
"Stop, thief," cried John as he ran. Others joined him, and soon there was a hue and cry.
An excited mass protest, alarm, or outcry of any kind.
The explosion was so terrible that people at a distance raised a great hue and cry about an earthquake.