Give A Damn

Definition: Give A Damn

Give A Damn

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Give A Damn

Crosswords: Give A Damn

The public doesn't give a damn about integrity. (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

Because they don't give a damn about you! (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

, tell Tiny Tim I won't be coming home this Christmas, (cough cough), tell Scarlett I do give a damn, (cough, cough) (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden)

Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

Oh, I don't give a damn what you believe. (The Birds; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Evan Hunter)

But I don't give a damn about it (Never Keeping Secrets; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

If you ain't into that we don't give a damn (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Feel to touch her long black hair they don't give a damn (Do Ya; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra)

I don't give a damn (Get Down; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Give a Damn Again (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn!: Classic Romances Retold (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Go On, Give a Damn (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "give a damn": i don't give a damn ♦ not give a damn ♦ not give a damn about ♦ not to give a damn. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

интересува. (various references)

Czech

nestarat se. (various references)

German

wurstegal sein (not give a damn), wurscht sein (not give a damn), schnurz sein (not give a damn). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא אכפת לי (I could not care less, I don't give a damn, I don't give a hoot, I don't mind). (various references)

Hungarian

átkot hoz valakire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一顧もしない (not give a damn, take no notice of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっ�"もしない (not give a damn, take no notice of). (various references)

Manx

s'cummey yn Jouyl lhiam (I don't give a damn). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivegay aay amnday

Russian 

плевать на (not give a damn about). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ne biti briga. (various references)

Turkish

umursamak (care about), takmak (affix, attach, bother, fix, fixate, hang, hang on, hitch, hook, infix, set, snag, stick, stock, string, thread, wear). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: deaving, evading, managed, vaginae.

-3 letters: agenda, aidman, aidmen, anadem, anemia, daimen, damage, degami, enigma, gained, gamine, imaged, invade, maenad, magian, maiden, manage, median, medina, navaid, vagina.

-4 letters: adage, adman, admen, again, agave, aimed, amain, amend, amide, amiga, amine, amnia, anima, anime, avian, daman, daven, deign, denim, dinge, divan, gamed, gamin, ganev, given, image.

+4 letters: animadverting.

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