| 单词 | to know little and care less |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know little (or nothing) and care less P23. to know little (or nothing) and care less: to be unconcerned (about); to be ignorant (of) and willing to remain so. Cf. sense 10b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > be inattentive [verb (intransitive)] > be unconcerned not to pass a fly (also fig, pin, point, straw, whit, etc.)?1548 matter1678 to know little (or nothing) and care less1783 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750 to know little (or nothing) and care less1783 not to know beans1833 not to have the remotest1864 (not) to know from nothing1933 not to know shit from Shinolaa1948 1783 J. Murdoch Pictures of Heart I. iii. 149 About the propriety of this or that mode of worship,..he knew little, and cared less. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. xi. 251 ‘I know nothing of the Miss Owens,’ said Fanny calmly. ‘You know nothing and you care less, as people say. Never did tone express indifference plainer.’ 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. viii. iv. 322 ‘Ah!’ said Egerton, who, as it has been before said, knew little, and cared less, about the Hazeldean pedigree, ‘I..had forgotten it.’ 1924 R. H. Mottram Spanish Farm i. 71 Madeleine knew little and cared less as to what this might mean, except as it affected the work of the farm. 1925 F. Harris My Life & Loves III. xii. 183 The great London doctors knew nothing about leprosy and cared less. 1937 N. Coward Present Indicative viii. v. 321 Even at the time we realised in our hearts that the bulk of the public knew nothing about Sirocco and cared less. 2006 D. Winner Those Feet 123 The World Cup was still regarded as a faraway competition of which we knew little and cared less. < as lemmas |
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