mind one's pees and cues

present singular third person minds one's pees and cues · participle present minding one's pees and cues · participle past minded one's pees and cues · past minded one's pees and cues

1. alternativeAlternative form of mind one's ps and qs.

   Liverpool’s marathon men mind pees and cues

   1982 April 26, David Lacey, “Soccer Comment”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 24

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   So do you tell her all a that I bid ee, and a mind your pees and cues.

   1792, Thomas Holcroft, “Letter LI. Abimelech Henley to Frank Henley.”, in Anna St. Ives: A Novel, volume III, London: […] Shepperson and Reynolds, […], page 131

   We now thank the people to mind their own pees and cues.

   1906 December 31, “Starkville”, in The Scranton Republican, Scranton, Penn., page 6, column 5

   ‘It wasn’t bad. If you minded your pees and cues you were chosen as a ball girl at the tennis tornament.’^([sic])

   1969, Michael Feld, The Sabbatical Year, London: Alan Ross Ltd, page 116

   ΔpΔq = h has been a good reminder to physicists that, when Big Delta is watching, they should mind their pees and cues and never drop their aitches.

   1973, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, page 7, column 1

   “I always insist that my actors mind their pees and cues.”

   1975, Joseph Julian, “Corwin”, in This Was Radio: A Personal Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Richard Seaver Books, The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 111