mind one's own business

/mˈaɪnd wˈɒnz ˈəʊn bˈɪznəs/

/mˈaɪnd wˈʌnz ˈoʊn bˈɪznəs/

[phrase]

to mind one's own business

[PHRASE]

to only concern oneself with one's own private matters and not to interfere in those of others

Examples

1. but you tend to look the other way and mind your own business.

2. If you are a hearing person walking around and you see a deaf person signing, like, even to another abled person or a hearing person, you know, ordering food or if two deaf people or you might have a deaf person and a CODA or whatever just signing having a conversation amongst themselves or minding their own business and going about their day, don't get so excited and start running up to them and going oh, my God, I sign too.

3. He wasn't running off, like he thought he was in trouble or trying to run from the cops, he was just walking home, minding his own business, and you tased him because you thought your life was in danger.

4. But when a 19-year-old kid is just minding his own business, walking away in a calm manner, just like if he was walking out of the grocery store to get to his car.