The phrase "for the fear" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to express the reason or motive behind something. Example: I didn't leave my house for the fear of catching a cold.
There was simply no time for the fear.
A similar electrocortical placebo effect was obtained for the fear pictures.
Avoiding large technology investments for the fear of failure can lead to obsolescence.
Psychologists recently tried to coin a name for the fear of losing a cellphone.
Mr. Grupp's cure is to substitute some other thought for the fear of financial insecurity.
Independent India avoided the division of provinces on linguistic lines for the fear of such balkanization.
But there is a special place in our psyches for the fear of big, unlikely catastrophes.
"I imagine he doesn't have the words for the fear he feels," Townsend says.
The researchers would wait a day or more for the fear memory to consolidate.
Lily Allen, who won best song for The Fear, provided the requisite controversy.
But I dropped the habit afterwards for the fear of accidentally offending them.
