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Dima
what does the phrase "Mind your own beeswax" mean?
13 juil. 2011 15:49
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It's as if the speaker began to say "mind your own business!" then changed the last word. It's slightly slangy, and less direct.
13 juillet 2011
1
It means to stop trying to pry into ones private affairs or do your own work stop annoying me :)
13 juillet 2011
1
Be busy with your work.
13 juillet 2011
It is just this slang habit of changing some words by using their first letters and modifying the rest for sounding more polite or not using sometimes an embarrassing or slightly improper term.
In this case 'beeswax' is a substitute for 'business' ,where business isn't a bad word to use,,but the whole expression sounds a bit rude, therefore another similarly sounding word will be less direct and might sound neater.
14 juillet 2011
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Dima
Compétences linguistiques
Anglais, Allemand, Polonais, Russe, Ukrainien
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Anglais, Allemand, Polonais
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