What is the origin of the saying "none of your beeswax" meaning mind your own business?
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Thats what it means.....It comes from the saying 'none of your business' which sounds like 'none of your buzz nest'..hence beeswax
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Never having to do for themselves.  In other words not having to work or accept responsibility.  According to Carl Jung being spoiled is one of the ways in which a person develops an inferiority complex.
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Don't know who said it recently but it's a quote from Shakespeare\n\n"Cry HAVOC' and let slip the dogs of war!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III
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Take your work seriously but never youself- Dame Margot Fonteyn\n\nA happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down- Beverly Sills\n\nAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but we wish we didn't-Erica Jong\n\nAerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway- Mary Kay Ash\n\nOn the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow- Norwegian Proverb\n\nThe perdon who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it- Chinese Proverb\n\nMeasure life by its breadth not length- Anon\n\nOh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thought nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away- George Eliot
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Quote:\nNever say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you. \n\nAuthor: Beerbohm, Herbert, Sir
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I believe it is from the use of rhyming to emphasise something being great! As in "the bees knees". This then became "the mutt's nuts", which translated into non-rhyming is "the dog's bollocks". WHY? I don't know.
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From one of the speeches in Henry VI part 2 (that's a Shakespeare play!)\n\nHere's the speech. The origin of Mum's the word comes in the third line:\n\n\n    Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;\n    Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!\n    Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:\n    The business asketh silent secrecy.\n    Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:\n    Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.\n    Yet have I gold flies from another coast;\n    I dare not say, from the rich cardinal\n    And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,\n    Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,\n    They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,\n    Have hired me to undermine the duchess\n    And buz these conjurations in her brain.\n    They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'\n    Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.\n    Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near\n    To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.\n    Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last\n    Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,\n    And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:\n    Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
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"stroke his ego".  for sure... this is a saying like, "chip on the shoulder" \n\nego is the idea Freud came up with I think... its about identity and personality and how one thinks of one's self... so she is trying to make him feel better, and in english the saying for that is, "stroke his ego"
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It's probably from Aesop's Fables. That's where most quotes like that come from.
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"...I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, - and I won't be laid a hand on.  I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."\n\nJ. B. Books, from the movie THE SHOOTIST
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It's latin. It means "don't whistle and drink at the same time".
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think it originated with the Rolling Stones as they described their backstage parties for an interview of somesort. The saying has pretty much been adopted by every rock group and wannabe rocker eversince as a way of answering why they're in the music buisness.
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i have never heard of that expression.  i believe it may be a combination of the sayings \n"heaven forbid" (i hope it does not happen) and \n"perish the thought" (don't even think about it).  \nwhoever used that expression probably meant to use one of those sayings.  they are similar in meaning.
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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I suppose it comes from the original 'You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear' meaning that you cannot change something or someone that is set in its ways.
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I think it comes from medevil times when they believed that if you actually went and got some of the hair of the dog that had bitten you it would heal faster or something. I know it is something along those lines. Actually here this is from wikipedia:\n\n"The origin of the phrase is unclear, but instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of Shakespeare. E. Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences."
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Hurrey! Congratulations, you have done a great job. The saying has originated from 'Lawdarrenstuart'.  Thanks for the brand new modern saying with a right mixture of two. Nobody can say that a bird in hand can gather any moss, it really can't gather any moss in some one's hand.  So the saying cannot be wrong in any way.