Why are you still in the house? It's time to be about your business.
•Why are you just standing there? You'd better get busy doing something!
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
go about one's business — 1. To attend to one s own affairs 2. To be off, to leave or depart • • • Main Entry: ↑go … Useful english dictionary
send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING … Dictionary of American idioms
send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING … Dictionary of American idioms
send\ one\ about\ one's\ business — v. phr. To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business. Compare: send one packing … Словарь американских идиом
send about one's business — If you tell someone, in an irritated or unfriendly way, to go away, yousend them about their business. An insurance company representative keeps calling on my mother, but I told her to send him about his business … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
go about one's business — {v. phr.} To mind one s own affairs. * /Fred kept bothering me with his questions all day, so I finally told him to go about his business and leave me alone./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go about one's business — {v. phr.} To mind one s own affairs. * /Fred kept bothering me with his questions all day, so I finally told him to go about his business and leave me alone./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go\ about\ one's\ business — v. phr. To mind one s own affairs. Fred kept bothering me with his questions all day, so I finally told him to go about his business and leave me alone … Словарь американских идиом
send about one's business — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. send away, discharge, get rid of, dispatch; see dismiss 1 … English dictionary for students
send about one's business — phrasal : to dismiss summarily or peremptorily … Useful english dictionary
To do one's business — Business Busi ness (b[i^]z n[e^]s), n.; pl. {Businesses} (b[i^]z n[e^]s*[e^]z). [From {Busy}.] 1. That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
