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Idiom

no skin off one's back

Meaning

No harm to one.

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

Examples

“If you want to change the plan, it is no skin off my back.”

“I do not mind if you borrow my car for the weekend; it is really no skin off my back.”

“Although his colleagues were deeply offended by the sudden policy change, he remained indifferent, noting that the adjustment was no skin off his back.”

Examples

simple

“If you want to change the plan, it is no skin off my back.”

contextual

“I do not mind if you borrow my car for the weekend; it is really no skin off my back.”

complex

“Although his colleagues were deeply offended by the sudden policy change, he remained indifferent, noting that the adjustment was no skin off his back.”

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