mind-your-own-business

Definitions

Examples

• And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

• The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

• True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.

• I was a little mystified at how benignly he responded to my questions about his business activities.

• This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

• He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

• Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

• He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

• "There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.

• The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.