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mind your own beeswax

mind your own beeswax phrase: synonym of mind your own business.

Phrase

mind your own beeswax

  1. Synonym of mind your own business.
    • Get back in the collar, and mind your own beeswax.1930 June 29, Lincoln Star (1930-06-29)
    • TRACY. (Rises) Mind your own beeswax, old Nosey Parker.1939, Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 74
    Synonyms:
    mind your own business

Synonyms of mind your own beeswax

  • mind your own business

Origin of mind your own beeswax

Alteration of mind your own business. From the use of beeswax to cover blemishes in the 1800s.

Questions about mind your own beeswax

What does mind your own beeswax mean?
Mind your own beeswax means synonym of mind your own business.
What part of speech is mind your own beeswax?
Mind your own beeswax is a phrase.

Words near mind your own beeswax in the dictionary

  1. mind the store
  2. mind virus
  3. mind viruses
  4. mind you
  5. mind your eye
  6. mind your own beeswax
  7. mind's ear
  8. mind's ears
  9. mind's eye
  10. mind's eyes
  11. mind-altering

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