Meaning of business is business | Babel Free

Definitions

Business matters should not be influenced by friendship or sentiment.

Equivalents

Examples

“I've a mortgage now on Tompkins' lot; / What a fool he was to become a sot! […] How she will blubber and sob and sigh, / But business is business,—and what care I?”

“But money first, you know, Mark; business is business as the saying is; and there's nothing like the ready.”

“Although I am your nephew, I wouldn't think of asking you to lend me money without security. Business is business, so I say.”

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