Idiom
care a jackstraw
Meaning
To care (at all).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He does not care a jackstraw about the rules.”
“She told him the truth, but he did not care a jackstraw about her feelings.”
“Despite the mounting pressure from his colleagues to conform, he did not care a jackstraw for their opinions and continued to follow his own path.”
Examples
simple
“He does not care a jackstraw about the rules.”
contextual
“She told him the truth, but he did not care a jackstraw about her feelings.”
complex
“Despite the mounting pressure from his colleagues to conform, he did not care a jackstraw for their opinions and continued to follow his own path.”
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