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/kɛr ə hæŋ/ Listen

Care a hang

verb

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

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"Care a hang" Quotes from Famous Books

... Croisset twelve Prussians. As soon as my poor dwelling (of which I have a horror now) is emptied and cleaned, I shall return there; then I shall go doubtless to Paris, despite its unhealthfulness! But I don't care a hang for that. ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... rejoined Burns from the depths of a big, dusty leather chair where he sat stretched in an attitude expressing extreme fatigue. "But I don't care a hang." ...

— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond

... to say that in America you are, as hosts, quite sincere in wishing us to enjoy ourselves and to like America. Here we will only do our duty by you if you bring letters to us, and we don't care a hang whether you like England or not. We like it, ...

— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell

... loved were waiting for you in England, nurse, you know you'd go—and you wouldn't care a hang whether you were fit ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

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