Mind your P's and Q's?
Posted by Anthony Brewer on November 02, 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!
This is the first time I have posted to a forum, I'm so excited.
LOL. Anyway.
I have never read anything about this particular phrase, however,
I always took it to mean, along with "behave properly", to also mean "be careful".
Now I base this on my simple dedution that "p" and "q" are mirror images of each
other "pq", thus "be careful" not to mix them up.
I could be wrong (it would
be my second time, LOL)but it always made sense to me.
Thx for your time.
Tony
- Mind your P's and Q's? Bruce Kahl 11/02/02