have no business (doing something)

have no business (doing something)

To have no legitimate reason, experience, or authority to do something. Mom, you had no business eavesdropping on my phone call like that! He has no business running this meeting—he has no idea what this project entails. An honest man like Paul really has no business getting into politics.

See also: business, have, no

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have no business doing something

to be wrong to do something; to be extremely unwise to do something. You have no business bursting in on me like that! You have no business spending money like that!

See also: business, have, no

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

have no business doing something/to do something

have no right to do something: You have no business being here.

See also: business, have, no, something, to

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