keep your breath to cool your porridge

keep your breath to cool your porridge

Focus on yourself and your life, rather than other people's lives and issues. Lady Martha, I strongly suggest that you keep your breath to cool your porridge, rather than intruding upon these affairs.
See also: breath, cool, keep, porridge
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • take one's breath away, to
  • jungle breath
  • dragon breath
  • got the dragon
  • draw breath
  • breath
  • in one breath
  • air
  • (right) from the off
  • draw (one's) last breath
References in classic literature
Darcy, "There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song."