give a fig
verbDefinitions
To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or…
To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker.
- I couldn’t give a fig!
- For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
- The railroads owned by U.S. Steel have never given a fig for prestige so long as their owner's ore was hauled to the mills economically.
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