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on P's and Q's
Posted by R. Berg on October
30, 2002 In Reply to: Mind your P's and Q's?
posted by Stan on October 30, 2002
: "Mind your P's and Q's."
Can someone please tell me what this means and where it originated? Thank you!
It
means "Behave properly." A previous discussion contains several proposals about
its origin: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/1416.html (link
below).
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