- beeswax (n.)
[beeswax 词源字典]
- 1670s, from genitive of bee + wax. As a jocular alteration of business (usually in an injunction to someone to mind his own) attested from 1934 in Lower East Side slang as reproduced in Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep."[beeswax etymology, beeswax origin, 英语词源]