I don't want to sound like a busybody, but
I don't want to sound like a busybody, but
Fig. an expression used to introduce an opinion or suggestion. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but didn't you intend to have your house painted? Bill: Well, I guess I did. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but some of your neighbors wonder if you could stop parking your car on your lawn. Sally: I'll thank you to mind your own business!
See also: but, like, sound, want
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- give (one) the fig
- go to one's head, to
- eat someone out of house and home, to
- (not) give a fig
- fig
- (not) care a fig
- avoid like the plague, to
- a fig leaf
- fig leaf
- didn