scratch for (one)self

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Balbino	-	Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Brielle	-	English (Modern)
SeyyİT	-	Turkish
ÁKos	-	Hungarian
Kumbukani	kuw-mboo-KAH-nee	Southern African, Chewa
Rohit	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Nepali