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give a fig (third-person singular simple present gives a fig, present participle giving a fig, simple past gave a fig, past participle given a fig)
- (informal, negative) To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:care
I couldn’t give a fig!
1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 32:For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 28:The railroads owned by U.S. Steel have never given a fig for prestige so long as their owner's ore was hauled to the mills economically.
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