couldn't care less

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

Josh, who thinks of himself as “the voice of women of a certain age,” is precious about the jokes he manages to get into the script; Mary couldn’t care less.

From Los Angeles Times

He couldn't care less if he was 16 or 66.

From BBC

He also told the BBC's US partner CBS that he "couldn't care less" whether allies could do more to assist with the war, adding: "It's a little bit late to be sending ships, right? A little bit late."

From BBC

“I have no idea what he’s talking about, who he is. I couldn’t care less,” the president told CBS News.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kenny Chesney told Rolling Stone recently that you “couldn’t care less about being a celebrity.”

From Los Angeles Times

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