Communication

mind your own business

avoid interfering

You say this when you want someone to stop asking about or interfering in your private matters.

B1 very common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Why are you checking my messages?

Mind your own business.

Play the conversation

I was minding my own business when a stranger started asking about my salary.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I told him to mind his own matters.

Say: I told him to mind his own business.

The fixed expression is “mind your own business”; “mind your own matters” is not the usual phrase.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

mind your own business; told him to mind his own business

Your turn: say it out loud

I was minding my own business when a stranger started asking about my salary.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

mind your own business

avoid interfering

“I was minding my own business when a stranger started asking about my salary.”

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