make it one's business

Undertake a self-appointed task, as in I'll make it my business to find out their plans. This phrase was first recorded in 1642.

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It would be such fun to be called a 'Red Bonnet' or a 'Green Griffin,' or some other nice fairy-tale-ish name; and to make it one's business to unite divided families, and to restore to deserving persons their long-lost great-great-grandparents.