buscarse la vida
Spanish
Verb
buscarse la vida (first-person singular present me busco la vida, first-person singular preterite me busqué la vida, past participle buscado la vida)
- (idiomatic) to fend for oneself, to get by on one’s own, to sort it out for yourself
Related terms
- ganarse la vida
Further reading
- “buscar, o buscarse, alguien la vida”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014