Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of it doesn't matter.
‘I shouldn’t have slept with Lil.’ ‘Ah,’ he sighs, pressing his face into my hair. […] ‘It does not matter.’
2021, Louise Willingham, chapter 53, in Not Quite Out, London: SRL Publishing, →ISBN, page 2562 more examples
“I am really dreadfully ashamed of myself, and so awfully sorry I have injured your paints,” said Laura, with a twinkle in her eye. “It does not matter in the very remotest degree, I assure you,” responded Glyn. “If you don’t mind the smell of a little turpentine, I can set matters right in a moment.”
1895 January, Sydney Hodges, “When Leaves were Green”, in The Argosy, volume LIX, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter I (In the Summer Woods), page 4“This rain, I am afraid, has rather spoiled your pleasure,” he was saying in a formal voice, which would have been ludicrous if it had not been so wounding. “It does not matter, I am not really wet at all,” was the conciliatory reply.
1895 March, Mrs. Conney, “An Old Maid’s Mistake”, in Belgravia: A London Magazine, volume LXXXVI, London: F. V. White & Co., […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, page 230
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