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)

1. (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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10