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p's and q's
noun
shoes UK
Rhyming slang.- — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
▶ mind your p’s and q’s
to be careful, exact, prudent UK, 1756
Perhaps from the old custom of alehouse tally, marking “p” for pint and “q” for quart, care being necessary to avoid over- or under-charging. Whether the source is in printing, or “pints and quarts”, or learning to read, is unknown.- It paid to be on your ps n’ qs at all times, no tellin’ when someone was going to pop in the door and throw a knife, a brick, a bottle, or just simply shoot. — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 177, 1977
- What was liberating was not having to mind my p’s and q’s. I could mouth off. — The Guardian, 15 December 1999
- I don’t want to mind my Ps & Qs, whatever they are (note to self: find out what Ps & Qs are). — James Hawes, White Powder, Green Light, p. 316, 2002
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