shift for yourself
old-fashioned — phrasal verb with shift /ʃɪft/ verbDefinition
› to earn your own income or buy and cook your own food, etc.: He left home at 18 and had to shift for himself.Earning money and money earned
(Definition of shift for yourself from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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