Daily life
do its thing
work naturally
To allow a person, process, or thing to work or happen without directing or interrupting it.
Hear it in real life
Should I keep stirring the sauce?
No, let it do its thing for a few minutes.
Put the cake in the oven and let it do its thing.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Let the sauce do its things for a few minutes.
Say: Let the sauce do its thing for a few minutes.
This expression uses singular “thing” to mean the process or activity it normally performs.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
let something do its thing; did its thing
Your turn: say it out loud
Put the cake in the oven and let it do its thing.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
do its thing
work naturally
“Put the cake in the oven and let it do its thing.”
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