| 单词 | couldn't-care-less-ness |
| 释义 | > as lemmascouldn't-care-less-ness (d) Colloquial phrase (I, etc.) couldn't care less: (I am, etc.) completely uninterested, utterly indifferent; frequently as phrase used attributively. Hence couldn't-care-less-ness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [phrase] > expression of indifference what reck?a1513 a foutre for1600 God pays1605 san fairy ann1919 for all I care1934 so what?1934 (I, etc.) couldn't care less1946 see if I care1947 (I, etc.) could care less1966 1946 A. Phelps (title) ‘I couldn't care less.’ 1947 B. Marshall Red Danube vi. 53 The couldn't-care-less boys, the chaps who imagined that now that the war was over there was no need for further effort. 1947 People 22 June 2/4 If I suggest that it should be good because the book was by a top-line author she simply couldn't care less. 1955 Ess. in Crit. 5 76 Exhibiting a vulgar couldn't-carelessness. 1957 F. King Man on Rock iv. 120 The phrase he most used was ‘I couldn't care less’: which seemed to sum up his character. 1965 Times Lit Suppl. 25 Nov. 1083/1 The couldn't-care-less attitude of people with little to lose. < as lemmas |
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