pay no mind
English
Alternative forms
- not pay any mind
Verb
pay no mind (third-person singular simple present pays no mind, present participle paying no mind, simple past and past participle paid no mind)
- To ignore someone.
- 1969, Joe Bataan (lyrics and music), “Ordinary Guy”:
- Walk hard / Pay me no mind / You're ashamed of me / You girl
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Further reading
- “pay someone no mind”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary