fend for yourself
phrasal verbfend for yourself
- to take care of yourself without help from anyone else
- His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
- The fox was released into the wild when it was old enough to fend for itself.
- The children were left to fend for themselves.
- We can let our guests fend for themselves.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fend for- be able to
- be left to
- have to
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