care a jackstraw

verb

To care (at all).

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Meanings

verbcare a jackstraw (third-person singular simple present cares a jackstraw, present participle caring a jackstraw, simple past and past participle cared a jackstraw)

present singular third person cares a jackstraw · participle present caring a jackstraw · participle past cared a jackstraw · past cared a jackstraw

  1. datedidiomaticusually in a negative useTo care (at all).

    […] Dangerfield was content to leave the question in abeyance, and did not seem to care a jackstraw what the townspeople said or thought—[…]

    1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which One of Little Bopeep’s Sheep Comes Home Again, and Various Theories Are Entertained Respecting Charles Nutter and Lieutenant Puddock”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 191
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    “[…] who’d care for the reputation of a schoolmaster? Do you think I’d care a jackstraw about Benson’s character if he was to die to-morrow?”

    1865, Anne I. Robertson, chapter 10, in Yaxley and its Neighbourhood, volume 1, London: T. Cautley Newby, page 122

    Synonyms: give a jackstraw, becare, bother, care, concern oneself, heed, mind, reck

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo care (at all).

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give a jackstrawbecarebothercareconcern oneselfheedmindrecktrouble oneselfworry
Also see
give a jackstraw
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