none of your beeswax

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Definition of none of your beeswax in English English dictionary

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

None of your beeswax,” answered Henry.

Hyphenation

none of your bees·wax

Etymology

() Alteration of none of your business, to soften the force of the retort. 1995, Palmatier, Robert Allen, Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313294909, page :