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单词 none of your funeral
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none of your (our, etc.) funeral
a. U.S. colloquial. In negative constructions. A matter or thing which one has the right to meddle with, involve oneself in, express an opinion on, etc.; one's business. Chiefly in none of your (our, etc.) funeral: no affair of yours (ours, etc.), nothing to do with you (us, etc.). Now rare.In quot. 1850 in the context of a literal funeral; cf. none of at none pron. 3c.
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1850 Miami County (Indiana) Sentinel 15 Aug. 1/2 A queer remark was made by an urchin of five years, who had lost a sister by death to a neighbor who was attending a funeral, ‘What are you crying for?’ said the little fellow to the latter, who was weeping, ‘'tis none of your funeral.’
1854 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 13 Mar. This is none of our funeral, but it appears that Mr. Noonan has been weighed by ‘the balance’ and found wanting.
1870 Congress. Globe 12 Apr. 2780/3 Mr. Painter then addressing you said, ‘This is not my funeral.’
1889 W. Whitman Let. 5 July in Corr. (1969) IV. 354 [The book] is to be frontispieced by a photo (wh' I do not like but the others do, & this is not my funeral) of Morse's bust (wh' I do like).
1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 674/1 We don't know for certain it was them, and it's none of our funeral, anyhow.
1944 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 3/4 It is none of your funeral whether this man is happily married or not.
1972 Albany (Texas) News 9 Mar. It is ‘none of our funeral’, therefore we deem it best to say nothing.
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