One is "You be you."
I picture this scenario: Matilde is studying for a test. Georgie sits down beside her and starts playing music that disturbs her concentration. She says "You be you" or "Go be you"--and Georgie finds some other enterprise or someone else with whom to share his playlist.
I tracked down the phrase and found a book--by Linda Kranz: A companion book to the bestselling Only One You, Kranz once again uses her famous "rockfish" to express the themes of diversity, individuality, and acceptance to children. When Adri sets out to explore the ocean, he has no idea how colorful the world is. He quickly discovers that there are all kinds of fish in the deep blue sea—big and tiny, smooth and spiny, colorful and plain, different and the same.
Another new-to-me expression is: "We caught feelings!" When Day recently confronted a student for stealing her earbuds, the student said, "Awwww! But we caught feelings, Mrs. L!"
Translated: "I thought we liked each other!" or "We'd just started being chummy and now you're taking your buds back!"
According to the Urban Dictionary, the expression, "catch feelings," is used to describe coming to like someone, or to love someone romantically, or to get one's feelings hurt by being overly sensitive. If someone insults you, you can "catch feelings." If your friend suddenly appears to be more than a friend, you might say you've "caught feelings" for him.
As one who's caught feelings for a few not-quite-right fish in the deep blue sea in my lifetime, I wish I'd known sooner how to un-catch a feeling and send not-quite-right-fish off to swim alone or with another, saying "You go be you!"
A friend told me yesterday she loves to feed the fish. She catches them on a pole (cause fishing is in her blood), then releases them back to the water where they are happy.
Maybe if we adopted this catch and release policy for failed romances and other relationships, breaking up would be less steeped in drama and tears?
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