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Spanish term or phrase:	"qué te importa, cara de torta, nariz larga, nariz corta ?"
English translation:	That´s for me to know and for you to find out.
Entered by:	Miguel Falquez-Certain

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2:55pm May 18, 2005

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Spanish term or phrase: "qué te importa, cara de torta, nariz larga, nariz corta ?"

Hola a todos! A alguien se le ocurre un equivalente en inglés para esto, o sea basically, a nice and humorous way of telling somebody he's asking too many questions. I know "curiosity killed the cat", but I was thinking there might be something else or a humorous way to evade questions. Gracias!!!

Desdemona

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Argentina

Clarification request(s) and response

BAmary: 3:08pm May 18, 2005: Michelle, and in Argentina we say: qué te importa, cara de torta, pico largo, nariz corta. And if you want you can add "como sos vos". -
Desdemona (asker): 3:11pm May 18, 2005: Barnary, you are so right, I just realized my typo, I really meant "pico largo, nariz corta" and not nariz larga, nariz corta. I dont´know what I was thinking when I typed that. Thanks, everybody!!
BAmary: 3:14pm May 18, 2005: Oh, I didn't realize you were from Argentina. I just pointed out to Michelle as a curiosity since she mentioned she knew another version! Well, glad I could help anyway. -

That´s for me to know and for you to find out.

Explanation:
A lo mejor le sirve.

Selected response from:

Miguel Falquez-Certain
United States

Note from asker to answerer

This is just what I need for the context. THANKS, everybody. I really liked Sheilann's too.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

That´s for me to know and for you to find out.

Miguel Falquez-Certain

Mind your own bizwax!

PATRICIA PARTEN

"Non-ya"

PATRICIA PARTEN

Well, look who's a Nosey Parker!!

María Teresa Taylor Oliver

4 +1

Are you writing a book?

Cindy Chadd

mind your own beeswax

Christina Courtright

keep your nose out of my business

MSuderman

Mind you own business

Sheilann

Hello Snoopy!

Roberto Hall

Answers

3 mins confidence:

qué te importa, cara de torta, nariz larga, nariz corta ?" "Non-ya"

Explanation:
Well... not as colorful, LOL, but nonetheless, conveys the same sentiments and informal lingo.

Patricia

PATRICIA PARTEN
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Are you writing a book?

Explanation:
I've never heard the expression, but based on your description, maybe this will work. (In case you're wondering, the proper response to an affirmative answer is: "Then leave that chapter out.") :-)

Cindy Chadd
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 59

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

That´s for me to know and for you to find out.

Explanation:
A lo mejor le sirve.

Miguel Falquez-Certain
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 6

Note from asker to answerer

This is just what I need for the context. THANKS, everybody. I really liked Sheilann's too.

6 mins confidence:

keep your nose out of my business

Explanation:
not as silly as the original, but it talks about noses
also:
what's it to ya?

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Note added at 8 mins (2005-05-18 15:03:55 GMT)
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Just an aside: the version of this phrase that I always hear kids saying is \"qué te importa, come torta con tu hermana la gordota.\"

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Note added at 21 mins (2005-05-18 15:17:25 GMT)
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To BAmary and asker: this is the Mexican version.

MSuderman
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

23 mins confidence:

Qué te importa ... Mind you own business

Explanation:
When I was a schoolkid, we used to say:

Mind you own business
And I'll mind mine.
Kiss our own boyfriend
And I'll kiss mine.

Sheilann
Spain
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 39

27 mins confidence:

Hello Snoopy!

Explanation:
..just an idea

Roberto Hall
Argentina
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 11

1 hr confidence:

qué te importa, cara de torta... mind your own beeswax

Explanation:
another colloquialism

Christina Courtright
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 19

1 hr confidence:

qué te importa Well, look who's a Nosey Parker!!

Explanation:

O también: "You're a Nosey Parker, aren't you?

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Note added at 1 hr 32 mins (2005-05-18 16:28:30 GMT)
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Main Entry: nosey par·ker Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: -pärkr
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized P
Etymology: probably from a name Nosey Parker, from nosy (used as a nickname) + Parker (the surname)
: a meddlesome prying busybody

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Note added at 1 hr 33 mins (2005-05-18 16:29:27 GMT)
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También se escribe \"Nosy\" sin la E.

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990420

Nosy Parker

Frances Thronson wrote:
Haven\'t been able to find the derivation of the phrase \"nosy parker.\" Any ideas?
The expression Nosy Parker is usually spelled that way, with capitals, although it is often spelled with the first word as Nosey, and the lowercase nos(e)y parker is a not infrequent variant. This chiefly British phrase is used to refer to an overly inquisitive person, a prying busybody.

Nosy Parker is an elaboration of the earlier nosy \'unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome\'. This nosy is itself a spinoff of various earlier phrases in which the nose, standing for one\'s self, suggests an interest in another person\'s private business. Samuel Johnson, in his great Dictionary of 1755, for example, defined \"To thrust one\'s Nose into the affairs of others\" as \"to be meddling with other people\'s matters, to be a busy body.\" In slang nose also referred to a paid police informer.

Nosy Parker elaborates nosy by personifying it, based on the common British family name Parker (which, before someone asks, is an occupation name for a person who works as a gamekeeper in a park). This sort of personification is common; examples based on other name elements are Joe Cool or Mr. Congeniality.

The stick (one\'s) nose into (something) expressions are first found in the early seventeenth century. Nosy dates from the late nineteenth, and Nosy Parker is from the first decade of the twentieth century.

Nosy Parker is sometimes said to refer to Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury in the sixteenth century, who was noted for his busybodiness, but the dates make this suggestion quite unlikely. The phrase is also attributed to a person or persons who snooped on canoodling couples in London\'s Hyde Park, which is a far more reasonable theory.

María Teresa Taylor Oliver
Panama
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 36

2 hrs confidence:

Mind your own bizwax!

Explanation:
uh- uhhh!! I just thought of another one. I know I'm late, but what the heck! LOL

Patricia

PATRICIA PARTEN
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

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Spanish: "qué te importa, cara de torta, nariz larga, nariz corta ?"

English translation: That´s for me to know and for you to find out.