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"etymology_text": "1960s counterculture.",
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"ref": "1977 October 3, “Behavior: Psychobabble”, in Time, retrieved 2019-12-08",
"text": "The psychological patter of the '70s is as inescapable as Muzak and just as numbing: Are you relating? Going through heavy changes? In touch with yourself and doing your own thing?",
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"ref": "1988 July 1, John S. Wilson, “Sounds Around Town”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-12-08",
"text": "This weekend, Mr. Rouse is doing his own thing: leading his own quartet with John Hicks on piano, Santi DeBriano on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums, and playing his own compositions.",
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{
"ref": "2010 December 11, Gill Sutherland, “I want my kids to rebel”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2019-12-08",
"text": "OK, so I want my kids to find their own way, do their own thing, become their own people.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2019-12-08",
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"To do what one considers to be best suited or most satisfying for oneself; to do what expresses one's distinctive interests or talents; to do as one chooses."
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"(idiomatic, possibly somewhat dated, informal) To do what one considers to be best suited or most satisfying for oneself; to do what expresses one's distinctive interests or talents; to do as one chooses."
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"word": "suit oneself"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "latter verb always in third-person singular",
"sense": "do what one considers best",
"word": "tehdä mitä miellyttää"
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"sense": "do what one considers best",
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"word": "chodzić własnymi drogami"
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"sense": "do what one considers best",
"word": "ir por libre"
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 December 11, Gill Sutherland, “I want my kids to rebel”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2019-12-08",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2019-12-08",
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],
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"idiomatic",
"informal",
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"code": "fi",
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"note": "latter verb always in third-person singular",
"sense": "do what one considers best",
"word": "tehdä mitä miellyttää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "do what one considers best",
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"word": "faire son truc"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "do what one considers best",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "chodzić własnymi drogami"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "do what one considers best",
"word": "ir por libre"
}
],
"word": "do one's own thing"
}
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