Re: I don't give a rat's ass.

bjm10@CORNELL.EDU <bjm10@...> wrote:


>a rat's ass
>a fig
etc.
>
>When one doesn't give any of the above in English, one means that one
>doesn't care about something, and quite vehemently so.  What are
>non-English colorful phrases to mean "I don't care about" something?
In Spanish:

No me importa...
    un pito       (a whistle/a penis)
    un comino     (this is a kind of spice)
    un corno      (< un cuerno 'a horn'?)
    un carajo     (plain expletive)
    una mierda    (*a shit)
    un soto/choto (meaningless, though usu. 'penis')

(this is in Argentina; in Spain you'll probably add "un coño").
You can take out the negative ("no") and it will work equally
well.

There are a few others, but you don't want to know them. :)


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   Zahir, which one will be a dream and which one a reality?"
                              Jorge Luis Borges, _The Zahir_