scratch for (oneself)
scratch for (oneself)
To be self-sufficient. Now that you're a college student living on campus, you can't rely on your parents to take care of you—you need to scratch for yourself. I come from a big family, so I've been scratching for myself since I was a little kid.
See also: scratch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- ourself
- every tub must stand on its own bottom
- be off the ground
- off the ground
- new town
- let every tub stand on its own bottom
- live off (of) (one's) (own) hump
- live on (one's) (own) hump
- live on your hump
- like to hear oneself talk