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Idiom

give a light

Meaning

To care.

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

Examples

“I do not give a light about what they think.”

“He keeps complaining about the weather, but I honestly do not give a light anymore.”

“Despite the mounting pressure from his peers to conform, he refused to give a light to their superficial opinions.”

Examples

simple

“I do not give a light about what they think.”

contextual

“He keeps complaining about the weather, but I honestly do not give a light anymore.”

complex

“Despite the mounting pressure from his peers to conform, he refused to give a light to their superficial opinions.”

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