IT’S NOT MY (or YOUR) FUNERAL, verb. phr. (American).—i.e., It is no business of mine, or yours. Fr., nib dans mes blots (= that is not my affair). Also used affirmatively.
1867. A. D. T. WHITNEY, A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life, p. 183. ‘It’s ‘NONE OF MY FUNERAL,’ I know,’ Sin Saxon said to Miss Craydocke. ‘I’m only an eleventh-hour helper; but I’ll come in for the holiday business … that’s more in my line.’
1871. DE VERE, Americanisms, p. 239. ‘This is NONE OF YOUR FUNERAL,’ is heard quite frequently as an indirect rebuke for intermeddling, with the ludicrous undercurrent of thought, that the troublesome meddler has no right to be crying at a strange man’s funeral.
1877. Hartford Times, 17 Oct. Senators Blaine and Barnum passed down to New York, en route to Washington, on Wednesday last, when Barnum asked Blaine how he liked the news from Ohio. ‘Oh, that ISN’T MY FUNERAL, I want you to understand,’ replied the plucky Maine Senator.
1888. Missouri Republican, 8 April. After a lot of slides had been exhibited the audience howled for Miss Debar. It got so noisy that Mr. Marsh reluctantly exclaimed—‘Well, is this YOUR FUNERAL or mine?’
