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make sure you are polite and use your pleases (p's) and thank yous (said quickly sounds like q's)
Mind your manners.
try yo be polite and not to insult any one
Mind your peepees and qiwis ..ahem .kiwis :D
It's an old printers expression meaning don't get your words wrong.
Comes from press printing where all the text was backwards before printing.
p's and q's got mixed up a lot leading to misunderstanding - hence, mind your p's and q's
Be careful.
In the old printing presses, it was easy to mix up the letters p &q because all letters were reversed when making the printing slab.
You had to be very careful with them.
Many years ago in England milk was sold off a cart there would be a barrel on the cart and the people would bring their jugs. Sometimes the vender would spill the milk and the customer would say"Hey mind the pints and Quarts you stupid bugger" This got shorten to "Hey mind your Ps and Qs you stupid bugger" Learned that in school many years ago
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It means mind your manners - please and thank you, or Pleases and thank Q's. Its based on phonetics rather than spelling.
Be polite & use Good Manners like Thank You & Please or it could mean stop being so nosy.
pints and quarters referring to ale.
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mind your manners,be on your best behavior
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http://www.idiomsite.com/psandqs.htm...
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Be on your best behaviour. Theories as to origin:- a warning to children learning their alphabet..Printers apprentices sorting type because both characters had tails.The one I like best is that in bar parlours of old P stood for pints and Q for quarts and the customer would be wise to keep a check on how much he had had to drink. In France P stands for pieds (feet) and Q for queues (wigs) so in the period when wigs were worn your dancing master would advise you to be aware of both.
I think it refers to handwriting lessons in schools, "p" and "q" being letters of the alphabet
Mind your pints and quarts...common measures of beer in old alehouses...when a fight broke out, the bartender would shout out "Mind your pints and quarts" as a way of telling people to stay out of it.
There is arguments over the origin, but the two learders are that (a) it comes from the pub to make the difference between Pints and Quarts or (b) it comes from typesetting, as "p" and "q" (lower case) look close [why it isn't mind your Bs and Ds is alos open, as they look similar]
IN OLD ENGLISH PUBS YOU DID NOT PAY FOR EACH DRINK YOU WERE SERVED BUT YOU HAD TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM.YOUR NAME WOULD BE ON A BLACKBOARD AND MINDING YOUR P'S AND Q'S---PINTS AND QUARTS--ACCURATLY WAS THE DRINKERS JOB. THUS MINDING YOUR P'S AND Q'S WAS,ESSENTIALLY, TO DO A FAIR ACCOUNTING--TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
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