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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



... a hoot," he told himself, watching with lazy eyes the smoke from his pipe drift blue between himself and the valley drowsing in the heat. "I'd like to see the little thing do well for herself—but really I don't give a damn." His moral listlessness, in view of the acuteness of that first remorse, and especially of that moment among the stars, when he had stretched out hands passionately eager for the agonizing sacrament ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... "Don't give a damn! I've had enough for being a Canadian; but I won't stand for this." I left him with his beard still on in patches and the bare spots bleeding angrily. As I had already committed myself, I had to bear in silence his purposely clumsy handling of that hack-saw. It was terrible, and Simmons, ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson

... mean," flung back the man curtly. "Good enough! It ain't. What's more, I don't give a damn. But listen: I was at the Buffalo Hump when two fellows came in. Me, I was most asleep, and they sat in the booth next to me. I didn't hear all they said, but I got this—that they're aimin' to hold up some messenger of Clint Wadley after ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine



Words linked to "Give a damn" :   care a hang, give a hang, give a hoot



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