doing one's own thing
Example Sentences
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As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness.
From Time Magazine Archive
That, of course, involves a contradiction between "doing one's own thing" and doing it with others.
From Time Magazine Archive
