give a rat's ass

present singular third person gives a rat's ass · participle present giving a rat's ass · past gave a rat's ass · participle past given a rat's ass

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of give a rat's arse.

   Anderson also said he doesn't think "the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle," and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett.

   2008 March 24, Jim Moore, “Save Our Sonics group is angry, articulate”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2025, retrieved 11 May 2011

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   I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.

   2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2002

   "In the time it would take for this Russian's attack to work over your 512K DSL line (2.2 years, I heard?) we could completely secure the DNS or at least the parts of DNS whose operators gave a rat's ass about security," Vixie concluded.

   2008 August 12, Gregg Keizer, “New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher”, in PC World, Australia, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, retrieved 11 May 2011