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Give a damn   /gɪv ə dæm/   Listen
Give a damn

verb
1.
Show no concern or interest; always used in the negative.  Synonyms: care a hang, give a hang, give a hoot.  "She doesn't give a damn about her job"






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"Give a damn" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought he, "because he gave his word not to make love until he had made good—or is it because he really doesn't give a damn about poor little Vi? If it's the first reason, why he's absolved from that promise, because he has made good, and every day he's making better. But if it's the second reason, why then this world is a wicked, dreary place. Poor little Vi—poor little Vi ... only two things ...
— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... Therese after a fashion. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge the woman's good qualities. But her faults, which included avarice, bad temper, gluttony, native cruelty of inclination, and simple inability to give a damn for anybody but herself, forbade satisfaction of Sofia's yearnings to give her affections freely through bestowing them upon the abundant and ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... an' I've got some say-so. One thing, you're goin' to git Bergstrom's share. I don't give a damn where the doctor comes in. If he marries the gal he'll git her twenty shares, ennyway. Though he ain't married her yet. And I ain't through with Simms yet," he added, with an emphasis that was a ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn



Words linked to "Give a damn" :   give a hang



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