What does mine your p and q's mean?

Answer 1

It may mean to be on your best behaviour and be careful of your language. Or sometimes it may just simply mean pay attention to details.

Answer 2

This expression, meaning "be very careful to behave correctly",
has been in use from the 17th century on. Theories include: an
admonishment to children learning to write; an admonishment to
typesetters (who had to look at the letters reversed); an
admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with
their tarred "queues" (pigtails); "mind your pints and quarts";
"mind your prices and quality"; "mind your pieds and queues"
(either feet and pigtails, or two dancing figures that had to be
accurately performed); the substitution of /p/ for "qu" /kw/ in the
speech of uneducated ancient Romans; or the confusion by students
learning both Latin and Ancient Greek of such cognates as _pente_
and _quintus_. And yes, we've heard the joke about the instruction
to new sextons: "Mind your keys and pews."

Answer 3

"mind your p's and q's" in collilqual, modern American English means to be careful, to be alert, to beware or to be on your guard. The reason for this is, in the old days of the printing press, before the invention of mechanized type, printers used a wooden hand-cranked typeface which literally had to stamp every letter. The shape of a "p" typeface and a "q" were very similar, almost mirror images of each other, and inexperienced printers often mixed them up. Hence, "mind your p's and q's", be alert, be exact, be careful.

Answer 4

Mind your own Pints and Quarts. Origins believed to go back to the early United Kingdom. Simply means mind your own business. =PandaPaw=

Answer 5

Mind your ps and qs means to watch out, take care, be careful.

Answer 6

what is that u r trying to ask?

Answer 7

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS-----BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR.