соваться не в свое дело

• ЛЕЗТЬ <СОВАТЬСЯ> НЕ В СВОЕ ДЕЛО coll, rather rude; ВМЕШИВАТЬСЯ НЕ В СВОЕ ДЕЛО{{}}

[VP; subj: human; often neg imper]

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⇒ to interfere in sth. that has no relation to one:

- X лезет не в своё дело{{}}≈ X sticks (pokes) his nose into person Y's (someone elsefe) business;

- X messes in (butts into) someone else's affairs;

- X interferes in other peopled business;

|| Neg Imper не лезь (не суйся) не в своё дело{{}}≈ mind your own business;

- keep out of this;

- keep out of what does not concern you;

- stay in your own backyard.

     ♦ "Если ты заблудилась, - всё звончей кричала Люда, чуя победу, - вместо монастыря попала в аспирантуру, - так сиди в углу и не будь свекровью. Надоело! Старая дева!" - "Людка! Не смей!" - закричала Оленька. "А чего она не в своё дело...?" (Солженицын 3). "If you got lost on the way," Lyuda shouted even louder, sensing victory, "and instead of landing in a nunnery you turned up here doing graduate work, all right then, sit there in your corner, but don't act like such a stepmother. It makes me sick. Old maid!" "Lyuda, don't you dare!" Olenka screamed. "Then what's she doing sticking her nose into everyone else's business?" (3a).

     ♦ [author's usage] Казангап, патриарх боранлинцев, притом очень тактичный, никогда не вмешивавшийся не в свои дела, пребывал ещё в полной силе и крепком здравии (Айтматов 2). At that time, Kazangap, as the patriarch of the people of Boranly, was always very tactful, never interfering in other people's business, and was still strong and in excellent health (2a).

     ♦ "Они [женщины] ничего не посмеют сказать председателю, он им ответит: не лезьте не в своё дело" (Рыбаков 2). "They [the women] wouldn't dare say anything to the manager-he'd only tell them to mind their own business" (2a).

     ♦ Фигура приближается к машине. Это солдат. Он весь в снегу. Пола шинели оторвана. "Чем побило?" - спрашивает Карпов... "Пулями побило!" - говорю я. "Не суйтесь не в своё дело", - говорит Карпов (Окуджава 1). The figure comes up to the car. It's a soldier. He's covered in snow One side of his greatcoat has been ripped off. "What were they hit by?" asks Karpov. ... "Hit by bullets," I say. "You keep out of this," says Karpov (1a).