Has your breath ever 'hitched??

[fuckeditupbadly]

Honestly, what is it lately with this expression in the soft porn/ Romantasy stuff? Its become one of those things that massively irritates me. I liked fantasy and dragons before they were cool. Now every Jonnycomelately has jumped on the bandwagon with fae this and magic that and they all, apparently, 'hitch' their breath, just before getting ravaged by the chisel jawed, brooding, evil but not really, hero. I mean, Buffy and Angel did this already, 25 years ago. Remember 'swirly coat, king of pain"? AIBU to think this is all very derivative? Entertaining, but very very derivative?

Not sure what you mean?

Mine has, many many times. It's a clichéd phrase but the phenomenon is real, and common.

It happened almost every time my late OH kissed my neck.

I clearly live in another world… I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Yep, as above. Often happens to me at certain times 😅

Yes, I have asthma.

Aye, Last time I got the till at Lidl.

How much?!

I understand the individual words in your post but collectively they make no sense to me. And I really have never heard "hitched" in that context before. I assume it means to "catch your breath".

It happens to me when I get kissed or touched or ...things 😂 in certain places. It is real. But an overuse of it in literature would annoy me too. Certain words and phrases go in and out of fashion, it'll pass.

Catch your breath, surely, not “hatch”.

A hitch is just like a small sudden catch of breath, right? If so, yes many times.

*hitch

As in "she wished his garlic breath would hitch a lift to the next town"? 🙂

Yes, but it's been involuntary (as in part of breathing and for no reason at all). I've never gasped though.

Yeah of course 🤣

It's not as annoying as "she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding!"

Of course it has. It just means a slight break in in breath, a breathless catch. It’s perfectly realistic imo. If all books did was state action and never describe things with any directive physicality of emotion they’d be rubbish.

I don’t like the eroticism of books atm because I find plot often falls in the face of it. But that doesn’t mean my breath didn’t hitch when my husband first kissed me.

😂

Very good.

No it doesn’t. When you breathe in, if your breath becomes shaky it can slightly falter and you have to breathe in a bit more forcefully. That falter is called a hitch.

Don’t criticise if you don’t even know what things mean 😂

Who said I was criticising? According to the OED and Cambridge dictionaries the word hitched means to attach something to something else, to "hitch up" your skirt or "to hitch a ride" as in hitch hiking. It is also noted as slang for "to get married". I can only therefore assume that hitched in this context is either a regional expression (although it isn't in my region) or modern urban slang. As I previously said, in this instance to "catch your breath" means the same thing. So for example, "I caught my breath when he went to kiss me". And that is the idiom I am used to, and I'm clearly not alone.

Say again?

And this is an example of someone who doesn't read.

@ginasevern said it best…

I understand the individual words in your post but collectively they make no sense to me

Yes. I am a part time actress and it’s a real skill and helps the audience to see I really DO have a huge crush on that (very gay) guy.

Yes definitely.

It would be quite nice if @fuckeditupbadly could come back and explain it, surely?

What? I read (assume you mean books?) and have never heard of this way of using the word.