<span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> (simple past <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> have <span class="searchmatch">cared</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>) Alternative form of couldn't <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>....
influenced by forms such as “as if I <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>”, “no one <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>”, and “to know little (or nothing) and <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>”. (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key):...
<span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> have <span class="searchmatch">cared</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> simple past of <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">could</span> have <span class="searchmatch">cared</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> simple past of <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>...
uncommon in most other English-speaking regions. <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> (US) <span class="searchmatch">not</span> give a tinker's damn <span class="searchmatch">not</span> give a tinker's cuss to lack interest...
frequent failure to distinguish between <span class="searchmatch">less</span> with fewer regarding mass nouns and count nouns. <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> fewer (humorous, rare) Synonym of <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span>....
keinen Fick geben (vulgar) to <span class="searchmatch">not</span> give a tinker's cuss, <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> [with auf ‘about’] einen Fick geben...
becare <span class="searchmatch">care</span> a button <span class="searchmatch">care</span> a fig <span class="searchmatch">care</span> a jackstraw <span class="searchmatch">care</span> a monkey's <span class="searchmatch">care</span> a whit <span class="searchmatch">care</span> for <span class="searchmatch">carer</span> <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> fewer <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> couldn't-care-less...
Have <span class="searchmatch">lessed</span> the woe, the dread, the <span class="searchmatch">care</span>; all the <span class="searchmatch">less</span> <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> couldn't <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> deuce <span class="searchmatch">less</span> in <span class="searchmatch">less</span> than no time <span class="searchmatch">less</span> and...
used as an ironic title for political satire. <span class="searchmatch">could</span> <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> couldn't <span class="searchmatch">care</span> <span class="searchmatch">less</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> give a tinker's damn <span class="searchmatch">not</span> give a tinker's cuss fiddling while Rome burns...