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Idiom

care a button

Meaning

To care (at all).

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He does not care a button about what people think.”

“She worked hard to finish the project, but her boss did not seem to care a button about the extra effort.”

“Despite the mounting pressure from his colleagues to conform to the new policy, he maintained that he did not care a button for their opinions.”

Examples

simple

“He does not care a button about what people think.”

contextual

“She worked hard to finish the project, but her boss did not seem to care a button about the extra effort.”

complex

“Despite the mounting pressure from his colleagues to conform to the new policy, he maintained that he did not care a button for their opinions.”

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