not care a hoot informal , auch: not give a hoot informal , auch: not give two hoots informal

She didn't care a hoot about the woman she was waiting on, or her act.

I don't care a hoot about nothing no more."

I know you don't care a hoot but.

Rancid didn't care a hoot about reading little woodland dramas.

"He didn't care a hoot about other designers - he just went his own way," Fairchild said.

She didn't care a hoot about what was over, triumphs as well as defeats.

I didn't care a hoot about any civilians."

I thought it was a poor excuse for getting rid of me-- I knew you didn't care a hoot about night air.

She didn't care a hoot, for goodness' sake, that he had an 'engagement' that evening.

Doreen did not care a hoot.

As long as they themselves (investors or traders) were winning they didn't care a hoot for the people who must be losing.

The farther away they went, the greater the likelihood of them being spotted from the skipper's lair, but they didn't care a hoot.

I just don't care a hoot, and if you won't stand up for him, I will, I can promise you that!"

He might think Calvin was trying to undermine his power, which wasn't true-- Calvin didn't care a hoot about taking Napoleon's place.

"If I were an orang-outang, Miss Cherrell, I wouldn't care a hoot whether a chimpanzee thought himself superior."

"I don't care a hoot for a book where they don't get properly married . . . or hanged . . . at the last.

"It's none of my business and I don't care a hoot, but I'm a reporter, and don't ever let them tell you I'm not a good one.

In the open letter, he bemoaned the idea that their falling-out could be "gleefully interpreted as literary fratricide by hacks who couldn't care a hoot for the real subject."

Then he turned with that nonchalant movement of his hips she'd come to cherish and lined up his next shot as if he didn't care a hoot what happened to her.

But quite a number of Queen's girls thought Hilary a charming fellow, although everybody knew that he had eyes only for Pat Gardiner who did not care a hoot about him.

I don't care a hoot about the control circuit it breaks; these controls are set, somehow, so that we can detect driver radiations, and I'm not taking any chances of having it ruined."

But the loss a society sustains when light verse dies may not be restricted solely to its poetry; even those people who don't care a hoot about "rhyming" may suffer an unwitting impoverishment.

More and more marathoners don't care a hoot how fast they go - they're slow, they're proud of it, and it's no skin off their feet if those lean machines out front go for the agony.

With trademark political chutzpah, he skips over his decade of Washington service and portrays himself as the underdog, a little guy battling powerful interests and a wasteful system that does not care a hoot for the middle class.

As Italian particle physicist Giulio D'Agostini has recently explained, these statistics don't put numbers on the probability of a particular hypothesis being right or wrong, because experiments don't care a hoot about your hypothesis.