mind-your-own-business
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I’m a mind-your-own-business kind of person, but I have witnessed a family member suffer from asthma.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023
I do think this is a mind-your-own-business situation!
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018
Better or not, Wyoming’s way — always idiosyncratic in the windblown, rural grain that mixes mind-your-own-business cowboy libertarianism and fiscal penny-pinching — is getting its moment in the spotlight.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011
“I’m really sorry. Just ignore her. She hasn’t been able to locate her mind-your-own-business medication for years.”
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
In my opinion, it would not take ten generations to produce that reign of ‘law,’ ‘principle,’ ‘morality,’ ‘virtue’ and ‘free trade,’ or mind-your-own-business, and every-one-for-himself-ism, on the earth.”
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
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