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riposte tobadgering questioning , expressing a refusal to answer, and aninsistence that the questioner ceaseprying any further.
Etymologies
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Alteration of none of your business, to soften the force of the retort.
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sarra commented on the word none of your beeswax
for none of your business; no. 6 in a series of collected intentional malapropisms
curiously, this is one of the phrases which crops up when you Google "intentional malapropism" — this is incidental though, and not a mark of research method!
October 25, 2007