Meaning of MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English, the phrase,
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"Mind your own business!",
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means that you want that person to stop
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asking you questions about your life
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or to stop prying into your life
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or into your private affairs.
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Sometimes you will know someone
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who has trouble minding their own business,
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and they are always asking you questions about your life.
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It's not exactly polite to say this,
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but you could say to them,
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"Please, mind your own business,
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please, stop asking me questions about my life,
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please, stop prying into the things
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that I do on a daily basis,
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please, mind your own business."
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It's kind of a funny phrase
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because it has the word business in it,
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but it doesn't have anything to do with business at all.
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So if you say to someone,
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"Please, mind your own business.",
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you're asking them to stop asking you
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questions about a part of your life.
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Hey, we have another phrase with the word business in it,
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"business as usual".
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When we say that everything is business as usual,
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it means that everything is going
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the way it would normally go.
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So if someone says to you,
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"How are things going at work?"
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You could say,
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"Oh, just business as usual.
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I go to my job,
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I do my job,
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I come home from my job,
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it's the same thing every day,
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it's just business as usual."
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So again, this is just a way
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to describe when things are going
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the way you would normally expect them to go.
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Anyways, I'm Bob the Canadian,
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and you're learning English with me.
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I hope you're having a great day.
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