мое дело сторона

• МОЕ <твоё и т. п.> ДЕЛО (-) СТОРОНА coll

[sent; these forms only; fixed WO]

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⇒ (used by the speaker to justify himself for not being, or wanting to be, involved in sth.; also used to express the speaker's opinion that another should not get involved in sth.) I am (you are etc) not or should not be involved in sth.:

- Х-ово дело сторона{{}}≈ it has nothing to do with X;

- X has nothing to do with it;

- it's not X's affair;

- it's no business (concern) of X's;

- it's none of X's business (concern);

- X is not involved (mixed up) in it;

- it's not X's place to get involved;

- X has no place getting involved.

     ♦ [Матрёна:] Коли чего коснётся, моё дело сторона, я знать не знаю, ведать не ведаю, - крест поцелую, никаких порошков не давала и не видала и не слыхала, какие такие порошки бывают (Толстой 1). [М.:] If it ever comes to something, I had nothing to do with it, I don't know nothing about nothing - I'll swear on the cross I never gave no powders, never saw no powders, and never heard nothing about there being such powders (1a).

     ♦ Судорожно впиваясь в рукав мужа, Антонина испуганно выдохнула: "Коля..." - "Тише, Тоня, тише. - Её дрожь передалась ему, он тревожно напрягся и побелел. - Наше дело сторона. Пойдём..." (Максимов 3). Digging her nails into her husband's sleeve, Antonina spoke his name in a terrified whisper. "Be quiet, Tonya, be quiet." He felt her trembling, and went tense and pale with anxiety. "It's none of our business. Let's go" (3a).

     ♦ "Ты, Илья Никанорыч, не подумай чего, наше дело - сторона, мы люди маленькие... Ванька сам по себе, а я сам по себе, у меня к евонным [ungrammat = его] затеям никакого касательства" (Максимов 1). "Ilya Nikanorych, please don't get the wrong idea. We're not mixed up in this, we're just simple people!... Vanka went his way and I went mine. I had nothing to do with what he was up to" (1a).