Mind your ps and qs là gì
Also found in: Wikipedia. Show To be polite and well behaved; to mind one's manners. Be sure to mind your p's and q's when you visit your aunt this weekend! The mother reminded her young children to mind their p's and q's when they went over to their friends' houses for play
dates. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved. Various suggestions have been made concerning the significance of P and Q . One obvious one is that a child learning to read or write might have difficulty in distinguishing between the two tailed letters p and q . Another is that printers
had to be very careful not to confuse the two letters when setting type. Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017 Biểu tượng này là gì? Biểu tượng cấp độ ngôn ngữ cho thấy mức độ thông thạo của người dùng đối với các ngôn ngữ họ quan tâm. Thiết lập cấp độ ngôn ngữ của bạn sẽ giúp người dùng khác cung cấp cho bạn câu trả lời không quá phức tạp hoặc quá đơn giản.
Đăng ký gói Premium, và bạn sẽ có thể phát lại câu trả lời âm thanh/video của người dùng khác. Quà tặng là gì? Show your appreciation in a way that likes and stamps can't. By sending a gift to someone, they will be more likely to answer your questions again! If you post a question after sending a gift to someone, your question will be displayed in a special section on that person’s feed. Mệt mỏi vì tìm kiếm? HiNative có thể giúp bạn tìm ra câu trả lời mà bạn đang tìm kiếm. Mind your Ps and QsWhat's the meaning of the phrase 'Mind your Ps and Qs'?Be on your best behaviour; be careful of your language. Ps and Qs are just the plurals of the letters P and Q. There is some disagreement amongst grammarians about how to spell Ps and Qs - either upper-case or lower-case and either with or without an apostrophe. You may see the phrase as 'mind your p's and q's' or 'mind your Ps and Qs' or 'mind your P's and Q's' or (less often) as 'mind your ps and qs'. I've opted for Ps and Qs. Doubts also exist as to the original meaning. Francis Grose, in his 1785 edition of the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, defines it like this:
What's the origin of the phrase 'Mind your Ps and Qs'?The date of the coinage of 'mind your Ps and Qs' is uncertain. There is a citation from Thomas Dekker's play, The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet, 1602, which appears to be the earliest use of the expression:
'Pee and Kue' in that citation seem to be referring to a form of clothing, but that is somewhat ambiguous. It is also not clear that the 'Pee and Kue' in Dekker's work are the same as those in 'mind one's Ps and Qs'. Dekker later used the term in West-ward Hoe, a joint work with John Webster, 1607:
In that piece it is less apparent that 'p. and q.' refer to a form of clothing. So, both the spelling and meaning of the phrase are debatable. Now we come to what is really uncertain - the derivation. Nevertheless, it is one of those phrases that many people are sure they know the origin of. When such folk are pressed, what they usually mean is that the person they first heard explain the origin had made a random choice from the list of proposed derivations below. As no one knows the origin I'll just list the suggestions - 'mind your Ps and Qs' probably derives from one of these:
So, pay nothing and take your choice. For what it's worth, my virtual two-pennyworth goes to 2b, that is, the advice to children who were learning to write. See other phrases first recorded by Captain Francis Grose. |