Contextualizebeta

none of your beeswax

phrase

Etymology

Alteration of none of your business. From the historical use of beeswax to cover up blemishes.

Definitions

  1. A riposte to badgering questioning, expressing a refusal to answer, and an insistence…

    A riposte to badgering questioning, expressing a refusal to answer, and an insistence that the questioner cease prying any further.

    • “Whatcha got in that bag?” asked Scooter. “None of your beeswax,” answered Henry.
    • BARBARA. That’s for me to know. RANDY. Come on. Who? BARBARA. None of your beeswax.
    • “You can ask, but since it's really none of your beeswax, I think I'll keep my mouth shut on that score.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for none of your beeswax. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA