mind your P's and Q's

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mind your P's and Q's [idiom]

Try to be as polite as you can; mind your behavior and try to be polite.

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Example: 

Susie, mind you P’s and Q’s when Aunt Martha is here and be a little good sweet girl. She likes polite girls.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

mind your p's and q's old-fashioned

to make an effort to be especially polite in a particular situation:

I have to mind my p's and q's when I'm with my grandmother.

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

mind your p's and q's also US watch your p's and q's : to be careful about behaving in a polite or proper way
• We knew to mind our p's and q's around our aunt.