Business before pleasure

"Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down."

"Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down."

But ‘business before pleasure,’ ye ken, mother; and nobody will miss me, I dare say.

But at the last moment Willie failed them, and the only reason given, was the unsatisfactory one of “business before pleasure.”

Business before pleasure: one of our first inquiries was for a breakfast.