couldn't care less

1. Also, could care less. Be completely indifferent. For example, Pick whatever dessert you want; I couldn't care less, or I could care less about the editor's opinion. This expression originated about 1940 in Britain and for a time invariably used couldn't. About 1960 could was occasionally substituted, and today both versions are used with approximately equal frequency, despite their being antonyms.

Example Sentences

"I'll tell you something that's going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less," he said, when asked how the nation can be fixed.

From BBC

“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” he replied.

From Salon

He added: “I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did. Have no interest in biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less, you know.”

From Los Angeles Times

While neither party seems willing to pay the political price of balancing budgets once in power, it is nevertheless a message voters have been hearing ad nauseam from major-party figures for as long as most of us have been conscious, and at the end of the day, ordinary people couldn’t care less about deficits.

From Slate

Maybe many of you reading this couldn’t care less.

From Salon

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