not care a straw v.
to not care at all.
![]() | Pardoner and Friar Bi: I care nat for the an olde straw [...] Therefore preche hardely thy belly full / But I neuer the les wyll declare the popes bull. | |
![]() | A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 76: I will not give a straw, I tell you plain, / If that the pie wax could again. | |
![]() | Satyre of Thrie Estaits II iv: As for this King, I cure him nocht twa strais. | |
![]() | Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: I set not a strawe by you nor a pinne. | |
![]() | Three Ladies of London II: Mary, for Conscience tut, I care not two strawes. | |
![]() | [trans.] Hans Beer-Pot n.p.: Nor doe our Pykemen care a straw for them: / Those troupes are good for execution,. | |
![]() | New Way to Pay Old Debts III i: This rebellious Cooke cares not a straw. | |
![]() | Gentile craft n.p.: [M]y Master do not care a straw for her. | |
![]() | [trans.]The flaming hart 452: [T]hey discomfort, and afflict themselues. As, for example, not to care a straw, if anie bodie should speake ill of vs; but rather to take more contentment in it. | |
![]() | An excellent piece of conceipted poesy 213: Her Case Ile put, like to a man of Law, Be right or wrong I doe not care a straw. | |
![]() | ‘A Psalm of Mercy’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 195: We care not a Straw / For Reason or Law. | |
![]() | True Character of a Scold 4: She not cares a straw for Constable or Cucking-stool. | |
![]() | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 527: This pair of bloods [...] Not care’d a straw what asius’ crew / Of roaring, noisy whelps could do. | |
![]() | Several discourses 774: When men make light of any affliction from God [...] ’Tis, as if they did not care a straw what God did with them, but dare him to do his worst. | |
![]() | Works (1794) II 409: I do not care three straws for all thy rhymes. | ‘A Rowland for an Oliver’|
![]() | Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 157: A body of men already too much engrossed [...] to care a single straw about either meat or drink. | |
![]() | Pelham I 17: He cared not a straw that he was a man of fortune, of family, of consequence; he must be a man of ton, or he was [...] no man. | |
![]() | Advice Gratis Scene i: I don’t care a straw about time. | |
![]() | Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 50: Like most of these sage ‘Johnny Raws’ / Who care not three straws / About Lawyers or Laws. | ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in|
![]() | ‘Petticoat Government’ Dublin Comic Songster 167: For their wives they don’t care a straw. | |
![]() | Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 1 Apr. 3/4: Your amiable pal and countryman is out on the 1st of June and will not care three straws for either of you. | |
![]() | Frank Fairlegh (1878) 417: I don’t care two straws about it. | |
![]() | Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 198: Reckoning that East and Brown [...] wouldn’t care three straws for any licking Jones might give them. | |
![]() | Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 44: He does not care two straws for Helen. | |
![]() | Tom Brown at Oxford (1880) 26: Drysdale [...] didn’t care three straws about knowing St. Cloud. | |
![]() | Dead Men’s Shoes II 252: I don’t care a straw for a horse when all the spirit has been taken out of him. | |
![]() | All Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 6/1: The Capting said he did not care two straws for him. | |
![]() | Robbery Under Arms (1922) 97: George worships the ground she treads on, and she can’t make herself care two straws about him. | |
![]() | Colonial Reformer I 187: He really did not care two straws what became of them. | |
![]() | Boy’s Own Paper 1 Dec. 139: He didn’t care a straw when the fellows called him ‘Horseshoe’. | |
![]() | Brand Blotters (1912) 219: I don’t care a jackstraw whether you do or not. | |
![]() | Lonely Plough (1931) 282: They don’t care a straw about your being a singer. | |
![]() | Mr Standfast (1930) 642: I don’t care two straws for music from an instrument – unless it be the pipes or a regimental band – but I dearly love the human voice. | |
![]() | Ulysses 691: And then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws who he does it with. | |
![]() | Boys’ Realm 16 Jan. 267: Not that he cared a straw about the boy. | |
![]() | Tarry Flynn (1965) 13: Not that I care a straw for that whipster of Reilley’s. | |
![]() | Billy Bunter at Butlins 1: Billy Bunter did not care a straw. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s) Lawd Today 38: Not that he cared two straws about what Lil would say. |