hold your own
C2 also hold your (own) ground to be as successful as other people or things in a situation:
Josie can hold her own in any argument.
to not become more ill or more weak:
He's still ill but holding his own.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- heat
- hold
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- manage
- roll
- sink or swim idiom
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
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