“in one's own”

The following 6 entries include the term in one's own.

a legend in one's own time

idiom

: a person who is famous while still living for doing something extremely well

in one's own (good) time

idiom

: at the time that is right or appropriate for one and not sooner

in one's (own) sweet time

idiom

: as slowly as one wants even though other people want one to act more quickly

in one's own time

idiom

: the time during which a company is not paying a worker

in one's own world

idiom

: spending so much time thinking about something that one does not notice what is happening

stew in one's own juice/juices

idiom

: to worry and suffer because of something that one did


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