to stay in your lane, to mind your own business
Francisco, que é pintor, vive dando palpite sobre a instalação elétrica. Cada macaco no seu galho.
Francisco, who is a painter, always gives advice on electrical work. Stick to your own field.
The picture is from the treetops: just as each monkey keeps to its own branch, each person should stay in their place and tend only to what concerns them. The phrase cada macaco no seu galho ("each monkey on its own branch") works as a folk proverb, and Priberam defines its figurative meaning without dating the proverb’s origin.
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