Japanese saying of the week!人の踊るときは踊れ（ひとのおどるときはおどれ）Go with the flow; when in Rome, do as the Romans

Japanese saying of the week!

人の踊るときは踊れ（ひとのおどるときはおどれ）
Go with the flow; when in Rome, do as the Romans do

Literally “When people are dancing, dance.”

• 人（ひと/hito） person, people
• の(no) …usually shows possession, but can sometimes act like a は or が when you use a whole sentence (like 人は踊る) to describe a noun (like とき). I guess you could think of it as the people’sdancing-time?
  
• 踊る（おどる/odoru） dance
• とき(toki) time (as in “at times when people dance…”)
• は(wa) marks the topic of the sentence (this sentence is about times when people are dancing, and what you should do about them)
  
• 踊れ（おどれ/odore) Dance! (as an informal command)