DO ONE'S THING Definition & Meaning

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Also, do one's own thing . Pursue one's interests or inclination; do what one does best or enjoys the most. For example, I really give him credit for doing his thing and not being discouraged by what the critics say , or Phyllis is busy doing her own thing, running the magazine and publishing books . Although this colloquialism became closely associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, it is actually much older. In one of his essays (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: 鈥淏ut do your thing and I shall know you.鈥� However, it came into wide use only during the mid-1900s.

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BOOGIE锟絋o relax, kid around, do one's thing, take it easy.

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