单词 | not to give a monkey's |
释义 | > as lemmasnot to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck) P10. coarse slang. not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck), etc.: not to care at all; to be completely indifferent or unconcerned. ΘΚΠ 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 1893 R. G. Hampton Major in Washington 97 A poker I.O.U. that wasn't worth a monkey's snicker. 1942 P. Larkin Let. 20 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 32 I rather liked the way the words ‘monkey's fuck’ and ‘bugger’ shone like sign posts in the strange country of this drunken Scotch.] 1960 G. W. Target Teachers 100 The Old Man's door opened and the pair of them came out, Stillwell not seeming to give a monkey's, but too casual, and poor Jimmy Taylor with his hands clenched before him. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1188/1 Monkey's f*ck, not to care a, not to care a rap; low (esp. Naval). 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xii. 116 I don't give a monkey's knee if he was with the Resistance or the Mafia. 1970 Observer 10 May 33/5 Tony Martin has booked himself a vasectomy... ‘I was brought up a Catholic,’ he said, ‘but I don't give a monkey's; you've got to be practical.’ 1975 J. Wainwright Square Dance 26 ‘Not’, snarled Sugden, ‘that I give a solitary monkey's toss what you wear.’ 1990 Lancet 2 June 1313/2 In the words of one member of the underclass, [the government] ‘doesn't give a monkey's’. < as lemmas |
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