单词 | not to give a bugger |
释义 | > as lemmasnot to give (or care) a bugger P1. slang. not to give (or care) a bugger: not to care at all. Hence in other dismissive (chiefly negative) constructions. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 550 I don't give a bugger who he is. 1939 D. Thomas Let. 2 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 243 I don't care a bugger whether you won't or will. 1960 F. Raphael Limits of Love i. iii. 32 It'd be a wonderful thing to have a magazine that just didn't give a bugger what it said about anyone. 1978 Times 4 Nov. 9/3 As we say in Malay, tilda' apa: who gives a bugger? 1978 J. Shelynn Cuoto Snatch xv. 152 Don't suppose he gives a bugger now. 2015 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 16 Aug. The no-booking policy gets right up my nose. It..says, in a roundabout way, ‘We don't give a bugger whether you come or not.’ < as lemmas |
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