None of your bees’ wax!” the boy returned impudently. But his eyes blinked with a funny, frightened rapidity. His bare feet, filthy beyond description….
none of your bees' wax
Pronunciation
Etymology
() Alteration of none of your business, to soften the force of the retort.
1995, Palmatier, Robert Allen, Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313294909, page :