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
Bastien	bas-TYAWN	French
Maalik	-	Arabic
Anwer	-	Arabic
Chuy	-	Spanish
Barbara	BAHR-bər-ə (English), BAHR-brə (English), BAHR-bah-rah (German), bahr-BAH-rah (Polish)	English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian,
Cleophas	KLEE-ə-fəs (English)	Biblical