mind the store
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Foreign adversaries looking to take advantage of the anticipated personnel changes will find America’s tech leaders carefully planning to mind the store to prevent any vulnerabilities.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
His mother worked 90 or more hours a week and taught her children to mind the store in her absence.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
What few tenured academics remain are handed just enough disproportionate power to maintain just enough acrimony that everybody is too busy being at each other’s throats to mind the store.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2015
Mr. Han and his wife, Jenny, still mind the store — ice cream to the left, tomatoes and apples by the door.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2011
I think what convinced her is Papa’s dying and me being away at school and the business losing money and Mama having to mind the store pretty much by herself.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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