| 单词 | not to care a straw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to care a straw (two, three straws) a. Often used as a type of what is of trifling value or importance, as in not to care a straw (two, three straws), and similar phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth ivy-leafc1000 needle?c1225 sloec1250 peasea1275 strawc1290 bean1297 nutc1300 buttonc1330 leekc1330 trifle1375 cress1377 goose-wing1377 sop1377 niflec1395 vetcha1400 a pin's head (also point)c1450 trump1513 plack1530 toy1530 blue point1532 grey groat1546 cherry-stone1607 jiggalorum1613 candle-enda1625 peppercorn1638 sponge1671 sneeshing1686 snottera1689 catchpenny1705 potato1757 snuff1809 pinhead1828 traneen1837 a hill of beans1863 gubbins1918 the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 c1290 St. Michael 151 in S. Eng. Leg. 304 Nis nouþe no man aliue þat hire couþe habbe i-wust so wel, Ne so hire i-fed and hire child þat ne costnede nouȝt a stravȝ. a1300 Havelok 315 He let his oth al ouer-ga, Þerof ne yaf he nouth a stra. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 718 Socrates..ne counted nat thre strees Of noght that fortune koude doo. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2655 By his sar set he noght a stra. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1670 Swiche vsage is Not worþ a strawe. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. liii. 201 Deth, j drede þee nouht a straw. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xiv. 22 Thou fers fo, Thy fervent words compt I nocht a stro. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H1 I force not argument a straw, Since that my case is past the helpe of law. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxix. 29 'Tis not a Straw matter whether the Main Cause be Right or Wrong. 1780 Mirror No. 103 An explanation, besides exposing me to their resentment (but that I did not value a straw), would have [etc.]. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 46 Drysdale, who didn't care three straws about knowing St. Cloud. 1887 Spectator 1 Oct. 1304 The British Government..does not care one straw what religion its subjects profess. < as lemmas |
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