10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIND ONE'S P'S AND Q'S»
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... mind field can soar limitlessly Mind one's own business: Confine oneself to
one's own efforts * Please mind your own business and do not interfere in my
work Mind one's p's and q's: Be watchfully accurate and punctilious * You mind
your p's ...
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American Slang: Cultural Language Guide to Living in the USA
Mind one's p's and q's: to be very mindful of one's words or actions. Mind your p's
and q's when we meet the diplomats at the party. Mind-reader: See, Read one's
mind. Mind the fort/store: watch and take charge of the house or business.
Joseph Melillo, Edward M. Melillo, 2004
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
... who stands at the door of an establishment and admits only those qualified to
enter: We inquired of the door-keeper, whereupon a woman came out to see us.
dot one's i's and cross one's t's mind one's p's and q's dot one 's i 's and cross one
...
(b) To mind one's P's and Q's, to be careful in one's speech and conduct 5tckif^fr*
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respectable", (c) One's P's and Q's, on«'« letters (siiqssi') JJ^SI^1?; as> "And
almost all ...
Nilakantha Babaji Ranade, 1996
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
mind one's own business to attend to one's own affairs, not interfering in other
people's: Why do you keep asking all these questions? Go away and mind your
own business! mind one's p's and q's (in/) to be very careful : Mind your ps and
q's if ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
p P. D. Q. 1923 unless he did what I said p. d. q. (p. 499) The Confessions
ofAleister Crowley: An Autohagiography, ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant.
c. 1923. London: Arkana Books, 1989. To mind one's p's and q's (APP 274;
ODEP 606; ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
... Don V try to argue with her — her mind's made up. mind one's own business
see business. mind one's p's and q's see p. mind you but (a fact, opinion etc) has
also to be taken into consideration along with what I have just said: / didn't
believe ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Another possible origin for the need to mind one's "p's and q's" would be the
compositor's imperative, while typesetting, to return types for particular letters to
the section of the case in which they belonged - the letters "p," "q," "b," and "d"
being ...
Robert Steven Levine, Robert S. Levine, 1998
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Webster's New World Thesaurus
3 [To be careful] tend, watch out for, take care, be wary, be concerned for, mind
one's p's and q's*; see also CONSIDER. — Ant. NEGLECT, ignore, be careless. 4
[*To remember] recollect, recall, bring to mind; see REMEMBER 1. 5 [To dislike) ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... mind one's p's and q's to be watchfully accurate and punctilious; mind out (
often with fur) to beware (of), look out (for); mind you an expression used to
introduce a qualification added to something already said; mind your eye (slang)
look out: ...
