have no business
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“Eighteen-year-old boys have no business being on the front line,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He had earlier said the Prison Service was under enormous pressure "but even against that backdrop it doesn't explain or excuse the release of people on our streets who have no business being there".
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
From her perspective, all-powerful cosmic beings have no business wifing up with mortals.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025
It has that common pervasive dampness along with plenty of clannish townspeople who resent these nosy Nellies poking around where they have no business.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
If you can’t stand being around suffering people, then you have no business in the low-wage work world, as a journalist or anything else.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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