butt out
Mind your business
Butt out is a blunt command to stop interfering or meddling in someone else's business: This is between me and her—butt out.
The phrase treats unwanted involvement like a cigarette that needs extinguishing.
It's ruder than "mind your own business" but less vulgar than alternatives.
Stop pressing someone
- step asideWithdraw from a position
- hands offForbidding contact or meddling
- withdrawRemove or pull away
- disengageBreak free from attachment
leave it alone · drop it · let it go · stand down · exit · vacate · retreat · recuse
Dismiss as unsuitable
- refuseReject or garbage
- rebuffAbrupt, curt rejection
- declineDecrease or refuse
- spurnRefuse with contempt
snub · brush off · cold-shoulder · shut down · turn away · repel · dismiss · repudiate
Interfere without invitation
mind your own business · nose around · busybody · eavesdrop · encroach · interject · barge in · stick your nose in
back off
Stop pressing someone
- step asideWithdraw from a position
- hands offForbidding contact or meddling
- withdrawRemove or pull away
leave it alone · disengage · drop it · let it go · stand down · exit · vacate · retreat · recuse · detach
reject
Dismiss as unsuitable
spurn · snub · brush off · cold-shoulder · shut down · turn away · repel · dismiss · repudiate · give the cold shoulder
meddle
Interfere without invitation
overstep · mind your own business · nose around · busybody · eavesdrop · encroach · interject · barge in · stick your nose in · intermeddle
- Back Offback off, hands off, step back, keep away, pull back
- dismissalsgo away, leave, scram, beat it, buzz off
- fighting wordsfight me, bring it, square up, throw hands, step outside
- Stay Awayback off, stay away, leave alone, keep away, off limits
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- meddlingmeddle, meddler, horn in, intrude, pry