struggle for

struggle for (something)

To have difficulty or put forth a strenuous effort to achieve, obtain, devise, or produce something. I struggled for words when they presented me the award. I used to be able to crank out a new book every year, but lately I've been struggling for ideas.
See also: struggle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

struggle for something

to strive to obtain something. I was struggling for a law degree when I won the lottery. I had to struggle for everything that came my way.
See also: struggle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • struggle for (something)
  • be stuck for (something)
  • stuck for, be
  • struggle to (do something)
  • struggle to do
  • work (something) out of (something else)
  • work out of
  • come up with
  • come up with (something)
  • the easy option
References in classic literature
The action of climate seems at first sight to be quite independent of the struggle for existence; but in so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle between the individuals, whether of the same or of distinct species, which subsist on the same kind of food.
When a species, owing to highly favourable circumstances, increases inordinately in numbers in a small tract, epidemics--at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals--often ensue: and here we have a limiting check independent of the struggle for life.
All that we can do, is to keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase at a geometrical ratio; that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction.
The Origin of Species
The Prime Minister expressed thanks to the people and the government of Pakistan for their continual unflinching support to the Kashmir cause showing complete solidarity and overwhelming support to their Kashmiri brethren in their just and principled struggle for liberation of the motherland from Indian yoke.
AJK to break shackles of LoC if India did not stop reign of state terrorism in IOK :Farooq Haider
The PM expressed gratitude to the people and the government of Pakistan for their continual unflinching support to the Kashmir cause showing complete solidarity and overwhelming support to their Kashmiri brethren in their just and principled struggle for liberation of the motherland from Indian yoke.
AJK can break LoC manacle if Delhi does not stop reign of terror
'People and Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir will relentlessly continue struggle for which the government in the base camp was established 71 years ago,' the president vowed and urged the global community to take serious notice of Indian state terrorism in occupied territory to crush indigenous struggle of Kashmir people for their birth right.
AJK celebrates 71st founding day
Paying homage to the founding president of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan and his associates for waging struggle for liberation of Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan said that Ghazi-e- Millat not only physically participated in the liberation struggle of Kashmir but also chaired the historic meeting that adopted the resolution of Kashmir's accession to Pakistan in 1947 at his Srinagar residence.
AJK President calls for reviving 1947 spirit to liberate Kashmir
The key narrative in the book is the story of how a group composed largely of women workers was able to engage in a labour struggle for a very long period until victory was won.
Blair Rutherford, Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: the ground of politics
Ethnic clashes in the south of Kyrgyzstan were the main tool in struggle for power, said Prosecutor General Kubatbek Baibolov at the plenary session of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan today.He said the third party and people involved into struggle for power are main organizers of the conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Prosecutor General Baibolov: Ethnic clashes may repeat again if power not divided proportionally between political forces
Jammu Sep.5 (ANI): The Scheduled Tribe Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today offered their full support to Jat community in their current struggle for grant of Other Backward Class (OBC) status.
Let's fight together: Kashmiri Gujjars to Jats
benefits of struggle for other forms of personal growth.
The correlates of spiritual struggle during the college years
It is a novel about the struggle for stability in an urban setting, with genuine flashes of heroism.
Me & Mrs. Jones
Isasi-Diaz has identified this special task of the human agent as the historical project of the "kindom" of God in which the Latina community participates as historical subjects through the gift and responsibility of moral agency that is exercised in the struggle for justice.
The imago Dei as embodied in nepantla--a Latino perspective
It is a reassessment, as the title suggests, and a reminder of the pertinence of culture and art in a people's struggle for social justice.
Stacy I. Morgan. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953
The first and most important was the long struggle for trade union unity, employer recognition, and the strength to impose controls on an otherwise cutthroat competitive branch of industry.
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor