Butt Told I English Meaning Forcefully Mind Business

Meaning: If you want to tell someone quite forcefully to mind their own business, you can tell them to butt out.

• butt out I was having an argument with my girlfriend when Pete told us to cool it, so I told him to butt out.
  
  
• butt out My sons were having a fight about something when their older sister tried to get them to stop. They both got angry with her and told her to butt out.
  
  

Variety: Thisis typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.