none of your bee's wax

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Alteration of none of your business, to soften the force of the retort.[1]

Phrase

none of your bee’s wax!

  1. Alternative form of none of your beeswax.

Quotations

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References

  1. Palmatier, Robert Allen (1995) Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages p.23
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