Citations:none of your bee's wax

English citations of none of your bee’s wax

1. A riposte to badgering questioning, expressing a refusal to answer, and an insistence that the questioner cease prying any further.
   • 1972: Michael Smith, More Plays from Off-Off Broadway, p62

     GEORGE: Does Joe play it with you?

     INA: I said, none of your bee’s wax!
     

     GEORGE: I’ll bet that isn’t all he plays with you!
     

     INA: What do you mean by that?
     

     GEORGE: You know what I mean!

   • 1983: Terry Carr, Universe 13, p12

     “None of your bee’s wax, Paul. I’m tired of this interrogation. Here, hang on a sec.” She retreated into the house but came back a moment later carrying a piece of Limoges ware featuring her painting Angels. “This is the plate for January”, she explained.

   • 2003: John A. McDaniel, Raudy Joe, the Kid in New Mexico, pp147–148

     Raudy found Red’s strange ways a bit hard to keep up with, but he kept watching. Then he saw Red put a short rope in a bag to take to school. “What are you going to do with the rope?”
     

     “None of your bee’s wax! Now leave me alone.” In the afternoon he watched Red coax the horse up with the bread, and put the rope around its neck. The horse followed the tug on the rope without resistance and Red led it home. Watching from a distance as Red shut the gate behind them, The Kid saw them disappear into the barn lot.