'tend to one's knitting
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See also: tend to one's knitting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]'tend to one's knitting (third-person singular simple present 'tends to one's knitting, present participle 'tending to one's knitting, simple past and past participle 'tended to one's knitting)
- Alternative form of stick to one's knitting
- 1915, The Spectator: An American Weekly Review of Insurance[1], volume 94:
- Say! if you want to be happy, loved and admired by all, keep your place—’tend to your knitting—mind your own business, and mind it well.
- 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-Trigger Brand[2], page 66:
- “Better go home and ’tend to your knitting, you men,” said one, urging his horse forward […]
- 1938, Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips], The Death Syndicate[3], page 166:
- “You want me to forget all those things, go home, and ’tend to my knitting. Is that it, Perdue?”