みんなぼっち

expression

alone together

Jocular phrase describing a group of people who are together but each absorbed in their own device or activity, feeling a shared sense of solitude. Derived from みんな (everyone) and ぼっち (alone, from ひとりぼっち).

See also: ぼっち

• カフェで友とも達だちと座すわっているけど、みんなスマホを見みていて、まさにみんなぼっちだね。

  We're sitting together at a café, but everyone's on their phone—it's exactly 'alone together.'