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I don't want to sound like a busybody, but

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I don't want to sound like a busybody, but

Fig. an expression used to introduce an opinion or suggestion. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but didn't you intend to have your house painted? Bill: Well, I guess I did. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but some of your neighbors wonder if you could stop parking your car on your lawn. Sally: I'll thank you to mind your own business!
See also: but, like, sound, to, want
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
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And busybody Blanche can get away with wearing glasses twice the size of her head without anyone taking the mick.
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It is one bloody busybody who has a problem with a bit of music - it drives me insane.
And the women are even harder to keep track of, going from crone to local busybody.
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As for those who imagine a kindly busybody of a Supreme Being, who answers prayers and arranges the galaxies to suit our astrology charts--well, they are doomed to miss the entire mad grandeur of a universe that casually extinguishes whole species, stars, and, with them, no doubt, life-supporting planets.
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