"'tend to one's knitting" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "'tends to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'tending to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'tended to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "'tended to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "expansion": "'tend to one's knitting (third-person singular simple present 'tends to one's knitting, present participle 'tending to one's knitting, simple past and past participle 'tended to one's knitting)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "stick to one's knitting"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, The Spectator: An American Weekly Review of Insurance, volume 94",
          "text": "Say! if you want to be happy, loved and admired by all, keep your place—’tend to your knitting—mind your own business, and mind it well.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-Trigger Brand, page 66",
          "text": "“Better go home and ’tend to your knitting, you men,” said one, urging his horse forward […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips], The Death Syndicate, page 166",
          "text": "You want me to forget all those things, go home, and ’tend to my knitting. Is that it, Perdue?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of stick to one's knitting"
      ],
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  "word": "'tend to one's knitting"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "'tends to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'tending to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'tended to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "'tended to one's knitting",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "expansion": "'tend to one's knitting (third-person singular simple present 'tends to one's knitting, present participle 'tending to one's knitting, simple past and past participle 'tended to one's knitting)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "stick to one's knitting"
        }
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, The Spectator: An American Weekly Review of Insurance, volume 94",
          "text": "Say! if you want to be happy, loved and admired by all, keep your place—’tend to your knitting—mind your own business, and mind it well.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-Trigger Brand, page 66",
          "text": "“Better go home and ’tend to your knitting, you men,” said one, urging his horse forward […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips], The Death Syndicate, page 166",
          "text": "You want me to forget all those things, go home, and ’tend to my knitting. Is that it, Perdue?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of stick to one's knitting"
      ],
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