N'en avoir cure
Meaning: To be entirely indifferent to something.
Language: French
Literally: To have no care of it
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Cure here is Latin cura, care or concern, the same root as curate and curator — nothing to do with remedies. The noun survives in modern French almost solely inside this phrase.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Virer sa cuti — To undergo a complete change of convictions.
- Au grand dam de quelqu'un — To someone's considerable detriment or annoyance.
- Trouver son chemin de Damas — To undergo a sudden and total conversion.
- Une épée de Damoclès — A disaster hanging over someone, liable to fall at any moment.
- Entretenir une danseuse — To maintain a costly indulgence that serves no purpose.
- À l'usage du Dauphin — Expurgated; censored for delicate sensibilities.
More French idioms
- Les dés sont pipés — The outcome is rigged in advance.
- Au débotté — On the spot, with no time to prepare.
- Les délices de Capoue — Comfort that saps the will to keep fighting.
- Après moi le déluge — What happens once I am gone is not my problem.
- Le démon de midi — The midlife crisis, especially its romantic form.
- Mentir comme un arracheur de dents — To lie brazenly and habitually.
From our proverbs
- A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. — Early action, however modest, accomplishes more than delayed grand efforts.
- A black plum is as sweet as a white. — Outward appearance reveals nothing about inner quality or worth.
- Who so blind as he that will not see? — Willful ignorance is the most complete blindness; refusing truth is worse than lacking it.
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