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never
mind!- don’t worry; mind your own business UK
Semi-exclamatory imperative. - GRANDPA: [...] We was going to do it together. LOFTY: Oh–well–never mind, Granfer. — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 140, 1959
- used as a humorous admission of misunderstanding US, 1977
A key signature line of the early years of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, uttered by the Emily Litella character played by Gilda Radner who would end rants about “Soviet Jewelry” or “the deaf penalty” with the humble “never mind”. Repeated with referential humour.
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