各忙各的 各过各的
“be busy with your own things, and live your own lives.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
各成各的家
“start your own family,”
各忙各的 各过各的
“be busy with your own things, and live your own lives.”
我不结婚
“I won't get married.”
“Once everyone gets married, we will drift apart and only care about our own separate lives.”
Traditional Chinese culture values big, close-knit families, so the transition where adult siblings marry and become absorbed in their own nuclear families ('各过各的') often evokes nostalgia and anxiety about losing closeness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
each busy with their own affairs
A very common four-character spoken idiom using the '各+Verb+各的' pattern to show people doing things separately without much interaction.
each living their own separate life
Used to describe people (siblings, roommates, or estranged couples) living independently without interfering with or relying on one another.
