Learn the English Phrases "It's none of your business" and "Mind your own business"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, it's none of your business.

So I was walking out of class today,

and there were two students in the hall.

And the one student said, what did

you get on your math test?

And the other student said, it's none of your business.

In English, when you say it's none of your

business, it's very informal and it's a little bit

rude, but you're basically telling the other person that

they're asking a question you don't want to answer.

They're asking for information that you

don't think they need to know.

A test is a great example.

If I took a test and you said to me,

if you were a friend of mine and said, hey,

how did you do on your math test?

I'd probably say, hey, it's none of your business.

Basically, what I'm saying is, I

don't want to tell you.

Maybe I did really good.

Maybe I didn't do very good at all.

But in any case, it's none of your business.

So remember, it is a.

It's a little bit rude.

It's very direct.

It's not a kind way of answering someone.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase mind your own business.

This means exactly the same thing.

And I think I taught this already about four years ago.

If someone said to me, hey, Bob, when

are you going to buy a new car?

I would say, mind your own business.

Again, a little bit rude,

very informal, and very direct.

Like, it's not a happy way of saying it.

If someone said, hey, Bob, when are

you going to buy a new car?

And I said, oh, I don't know.

I haven't really thought about it, But I actually had.

That's kind of a nicer way to do it.

So anyways, to review, it's none of your business and

mind your own business, they mean the same thing.

It's a way of telling someone that the

questions they are asking are too direct.

They're asking for more information than

you're willing to give them.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This is from Denis Pizza ut.

It's a product placement in Bob's short.

And my response, they should sponsor me.

Yeah, I think in the last video, there was...

I was walking around town, right?

So you saw probably Pizza Hut and Gino's Pizza and...

No, not Gino's Nino's.

There's a Gino's pizza and a Nino's pizza in my town.

But yeah, lots of pizza places.

In fact, Smithville, the town of

Smithville, has five pizza places.

A little bit strange.

Anyways, you can see here it's this time of year.

It's the time of year when we put the little

markers along the driveway and we bought some extra ones

this year and there's some on this side as well.

We put these along the driveway

because eventually it's going to snow.

And then eventually it gets very, very difficult to

see where the driveway is both when driving in

and out, when there's a bit of snow on

the ground, but also when using the snowblower.

I need to know where the driveway is so that

I don't go off the driveway and into the lawn.

So not sure if you can see them very clearly.

We bought some bright orange ones and then this

type here we have a few of these.

I think we have four of these

now. This one is actually a reflector.

So the light coming from your headlights or

from your reverse lights lights that up.

And by the way, if you didn't know what

headlights were, the headlights are on the front here.

We call those fog lights.

I don't really always use them in the fog.

And then on the back you have

these, which are your reverse lights.

So when you drive backwards or when you drive in reverse,

you can see a little bit, at least when you're...

when you're going in reverse.

Mine aren't as bright as they should be or

my eyesight is starting to fade at night.

I think it's getting a little harder for me

to see at night one of those two things.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you enjoyed this little English

lesson about reflectors and telling people that

something's none of their business.

And I'll see you in a few days with another one.

Bye.