@hellodear Worth is special. There are no other English words that work like it grammatically. You should just learn some example sentences with worth and try to make up examples that sound similar.

Hi! Concerning the phrase "Trust your struggle", how do you assess that? If you look at some ngram with "trust your *_NOUN" this won't show up, you'll see judgment, life, grace, Lord etc. Then I looked up Urban Dictionary and found it, "Accepting when things are tough, it's for your benefit in the end; a life lesson that needs to be learned". Do you consider the phrase significant even though it wouldn't be an idiom yet? Does the fact that the collocation is not typical hint that...

it's more than the sum of parts. Or is it the use of the singular form "struggle" and not struggles? I mean, if someone is having a hard time and talks about it, would you say something like that spontaneously instead of "hang in there", "hang on" or "you'll get through it" or sth? Or do you feel the phrase is more meaningful as some kind of statement when someone attends an AA meeting or some title for a talk. Do you think it's speech from young people, and do you a connection with how...

"because English" is formed? When "something is missing" in the syntax, does that automatically create "an intricate set of reasons" why it's uttered?

do you see a connection*

I ask because someone wanted to have that translated to French on FLE but they didn't explain and some people answering were saying that since it's not different than a regular phrasing in a sentence then you couldn't attribute it a meaning beyond the literal meaning.

But even though I'm not a native speaker I felt right away that trusting a struggle is weird. Even trusting one's inner stuggle is unusual; still I find inner stuggle a typical collocation.

But the inner stuggle has nothing to do with the phrase, it's really an "outer" struggle, it feels like a highly compounded form for a sentence with a complement...

"trust that what happens in you life to happens for a reason, because you'll reap the rewards in the future" sth. Anyways.

Anyways I just screwed up the sentence entirely but you know what I mean. Thanks.

@Survenant9r7 I don't think anything is missing grammatically from "Trust your struggle". I don't think it's necessarily obvious what it means the first time you hear it, though.

@snailboat Thanks. So it's grammatical but not very meaningful. Would you say it's exactly like "You should trust your struggle" i.e. is it more than literal plain English or is it how a phrase slowly makes its way into something more. In so many words is that more than a standard phrase in your opinion?

I guess I don't have the training to understand how a phrase becomes an idiom, I imagine it's just usage and this phrase is in the early stage and not very well known hence your comment. Language is difficult.