mind-your-own-business

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.

I was a little mystified at how benignly he responded to my questions about his business activities.

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.

The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.