not to care a ...

not to care a ...
• give a hang
• care a brass farthing
• care a button
• care a damn
• care a farthing
• care a fig
• care a hang
• care a hoot
• care a pin
• care a rap
• care a straw
• care a whistle
• care two pins about
- in negative: to care nothing.

I don't care two pins if you think me plain or not. (W. S. Maugham)

Caroline does not care a hang for woods at any time of the year. (A. Christie)

... a laugh you couldn't trust, but a laugh which made you laugh back and agree that in a crazy world like this all sorts of things didn't matter a hang. (Gr. Greene)


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  • not to care a fig — not to care at all, not to have any interest in …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Not to care a cuss — not to care at all (originally US slang (18th C.); representing a US pronunciation of curse) …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Not to care a rat's arse — not to care at all …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Not to care a tinker's cuss — not to care at all (originally US slang (18th C.); representing a US pronunciation of curse) …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Not to care a rap — Rap Rap, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. [1913 Webster] Many counterfeits passed about… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • not to care a cuss — Australian Slang not to care at all (originally US slang (18th C.); representing a US pronunciation of curse) …   English dialects glossary

  • not to care a rat's arse — Australian Slang not to care at all …   English dialects glossary

  • not to care a tinker's cuss — Australian Slang not to care at all (originally US slang (18th C.); representing a US pronunciation of curse) …   English dialects glossary

  • fig, not to care or give a —  Not to care in the slightest …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • Not to give a twopenny dump — not to care …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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