Please use this idiom in a good sentence:
"Mind your P's and Q's"
And please if you can explain it clearly
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2006-07-19 00:16:19 · 10 answers · asked by kevin! 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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2006-07-19 00:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by Nickname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child my mother used this idiom when she wanted us to mind our manners and be on our best behavior, and when she was warning us about a particular person.
An example sentence of the first usage: "I want all you kids to mind your p's and q's while we are in church today."
An example sentence of the second usage: "Young lady, you better watch your p’s and q’s around that one!"
I found the following information at:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/psandqs.htm
I hope it helps.
In the nineteenth century, according to Eric Partridge in A Dictionary of Historical Slang: it meant “to be careful, exact, or prudent in behaviour”.
These are some of the explanations for mind your P's and Q's:
Advice to a child learning its letters to be careful not to mix up the handwritten lower-case letters p and q.
Similar advice to a printer’s apprentice, for whom the backward-facing metal type letters would be especially confusing.
Jocular, or perhaps deadly serious, advice to a barman not to confuse the letters p and q on the tally slate, on which the letters stood for the pints and quarts consumed “on tick” by the patrons.
An abbreviation of mind your please’s and thank-you’s.
Instructions from a French dancing master to be sure to perform the dance figures pieds and queues accurately.
An admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with their tarred queues, that is, their pigtails.
2006-07-19 01:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Cricket 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several used sentences on here already, but I had always heard the explanation a little different than what anyone on here said. I heard that a "p" and "q" were so similar in shape that you needed to pay close attention and be sure you used a "p" when needed and a "q" when needed.
2006-07-19 01:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by sweetnessmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to be on your best behavior in any
one situation. Making sure you do what is
exactly right. Such as "Mind your P's and
Q's today when you meet their parents."
2006-07-19 00:27:07 · answer #4 · answered by Barb S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
P’s n Q’s: it actually means, Mind your Pints and Quarts. In Pubs when people would start arguing, the bartenders would tell them to mind their own drinks... being pints n quarts!
2006-07-19 00:31:19 · answer #5 · answered by missy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To mind your P's and Q's means to remember to say Please (P) and Thank you (Q).
Such as "When you meet Kevin!'s parent's remember to mind your P's and Q's."
2006-07-19 02:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I've told you before, you will get more out of life if you mind your p's and q's"
it means to watch your manners, by saying please (p's) and thank you (q's)
2006-07-19 00:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by rami #1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know?!?
2006-07-19 00:47:55 · answer #8 · answered by stutznut23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please be careful with your quesitons and answers...
2006-07-19 00:19:08 · answer #9 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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