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mind-your-own-business

American  
[mahynd-yer-ohn-biz-nis] / ˈmaɪnd yər oʊnˈbɪz nɪs /

noun

  1. baby's-tears.


mind-your-own-business British  

noun

  1. a Mediterranean urticaceous plant, Helxine soleirolii, with small dense leaves: used for cover

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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

The situation in Gillette is emblematic of the live-free, mind-your-own-business mentality toward the pandemic that is dominant across conservative America at a time when the delta variant is tearing through unvaccinated communities.

From Seattle Times

The message that “my mask protects you, your mask protects me,” isn’t always well-suited to the mind-your-own-business mentality of a state that produced Barry Goldwater’s small-government conservatism and John McCain’s self-styled “maverick” persona.

From Seattle Times

Then some rightwing antihero – Morgan, or Nigel Farage – rides to the rescue, saying: “We don’t judge! We’re team mind-your-own-business,” when in fact it was their wealth-supremacist worldview that created the division in the first place.

From The Guardian

"I'd probably say, mind-your-own-business, because it's not a question I would ask," says Tony Clapson who works as a junior manager for a High Street retail chain.

From BBC