fight for (someone or something)

fight for (someone or something)

1. To fight in honor of someone or something. Many of the men who left to fight for their country did not live to return to it. Of course I fought for my wife when the escaped convict tried to take her hostage! How do you think we managed to escape? We will fight for our town—we don't want to be incorporated into the city!
2. To struggle to gain or secure someone or something. If you're in love with Vanessa, then you need to fight for your girl. Many civil rights pioneers fought for the end of segregation. I know this company is hugely powerful, but we have to fight for the land that is rightly ours!
See also: fight, for
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

fight for someone or something

to go to battle for the benefit of someone or something; to go to battle in the name of someone or something. They all went off to fight for their country. The soldiers fought for the queen and the survival of the empire. I guess I will have to learn to fight for my rights.
See also: fight, for
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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