every man for himself

idiom

—used to describe a situation in which people do not help each other and each person has to take care of himself or herself

As soon as there was a crisis, it was every man for himself.

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Is it not fated to a pitiless future of every man for himself? —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024 But Le Corbeau doesn’t stop there, targeting the whole town with malicious rumors that turn every man for himself. —

Barry Levitt, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024 But the solution isn’t give everyone a gun and every man for himself. —

John Hudson, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023 Baseball is every man for himself, not all hands on deck. —

Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023

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