This idiom uses business in the sense of “a serious endeavor.” [Mid-1800s] Discover More. Example Sentences. Her brown-velvet eyes often soothed me, although her eyebrows added to her every demand: “I mean business!” From The Daily Beast. More @Wikipedia
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