IdiomFood & Drink
Spanish
SpanishImportar un pepino
Meaning: To not care in the slightest.
Literally: To matter a cucumber
Example: “Lo que digan los vecinos me importa un pepino.” — What the neighbors say, I don't give a hoot about.
English equivalent: Not to give a hoot
Origin: The cucumber (pepino) is cheap and common, so something that matters a cucumber matters nothing. Spanish has a whole family of these: importar un comino (a cumin seed), un rábano (a radish), and cruder versions. None has a particular story behind it.
Equivalents in other languages
German: Das ist mir Wurst Literally: That is sausage to me
French: Ça m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre Literally: It touches one of mine without moving the other
Italian: farsene un baffo Literally: To make oneself a mustache of it- French: N'en avoir cure Literally: To have no care of it
- French: S'en tamponner le coquillard Literally: To dab one's coquillard with it
- French: S'en moquer comme de l'an quarante Literally: To care about it as much as about the year forty
English: not to give a hoot
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