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Mind your Ps and Qs is an English language expression meaning "mind your manners", "mind your language", "be on your best behaviour", or "watch what you're doing". Attempts at explaining the origin of the phrase go back to the mid-19th century.
Be on your best behaviour; be careful of your language. Ps and Qs are just the plurals of the letters P and Q. There is some disagreement amongst grammarians about how to spell Ps and Qs – either upper-case or lower-case and either with or without an apostrophe.
A expressão mind your p’s and q’s – ao pé da letra “cuidar de seus p’s e q’s” – é usada para aconselhar alguém a falar e a se comportar de maneira apropriada para não cometer gafes. Não se sabe ao certo a origem desta expressão estranha. Provavelmente ela vem do conselho dado a crianças aprendendo a escrever na escola ...
MIND YOUR P'S AND Q'S definition: 1. to make an effort to be especially polite in a particular situation: 2. to make an effort to be…. Learn more.
Há 3 dias · Mind your Ps and Qs is our phrase in The English We Speak. If someone tells you to mind your Ps and Qs, they’re telling you to be polite in a social situation, and to be careful about what...
1 de mai. de 2023 · In 1607, five years after the publication of Satiromastix, Dekker published another play called Westward Hoe.It contains the line, “at her p. and q. neither Marchantes [merchant’s] daughter ...
10 de fev. de 2011 · "Mind your Ps and Qs" means "be careful to behave well and avoid giving offense." The NOAD reports that its origin is unknown; it would refer to the care a young student must take in differentiating the tailed letters p and q.
