go it alone

1. Undertake a project, trip, or responsibility without the aid or presence of others. For example, If you decide not to help, I'll just go it alone. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

“He prefers to go it alone. And he has backed up these words with actions in both his first and second terms, pulling out of many international treaties and multilateral institutions.”

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Corbyn has not agreed to co-leadership, although he has not ruled this out, so some suspected she was preparing to "go it alone".

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He said she was "actually very supportive" because she could see he was leaving "a secure place" like Vogue to go it alone.

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After always working for other people in the butchery industry, Mr Field, 47, thought he would try and go it alone and run his own shop after an opportunity arose.

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“Moments of beautiful victory, and moments of painful defeat. We have mended broken bones and broken hearts. But we have followed this road together, with each other, for each other, no matter what. Because in life, you just can’t go it alone.”

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