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

Being a snarky 16-year-old boy, I couldn’t care less about society ladies or their suitors.

From The Wall Street Journal

We all thought the kindergarten would stop whatever it was doing, hunt up a cigar box, write a poem for Bob, and have a funeral, but according to Boomer they couldn’t care less.

From Literature

And maybe even better, since she had a way with writing her ABCs and I couldn’t care less about swoops and curlicues back then.

From Literature

‘I couldn’t care less. I don’t care about money.’

From Salon

Woo couldn’t care less about my disapproval.

From Literature

Related Words

• abstract
• candid
• detached
• disinterested
• sober
• unbiased
• unemotional