none of your bees' wax

See also: none of your bee's wax and none of your beeswax

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Phrase

none of your bees ’ wax!

Alternative form of none of your beeswax.
- 1950: Buena Vista Stine, The Talented Wench: A Novel, p155
  “None of your bees’ wax!” the boy returned impudently. But his eyes blinked with a funny, frightened rapidity. His bare feet, filthy beyond description…

References

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

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