scratch one's own itch

verb

Etymology

From scratch an itch.

Definitions

  1. To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem

    To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands.

    • Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
  2. to masturbate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scratch one's own itch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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