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What the heck does mind your P's and Q's mean?


What the heck does mind your P's and Q's mean?

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

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