IdiomDaily Life
French
FrenchN'en avoir cure
Meaning: To be entirely indifferent to something.
Literally: To have no care of it
Example: “Les voisins se plaignent du bruit, mais il n'en a cure.” — The neighbors complain about the noise, but he doesn't give a hoot.
English equivalent: Not to give a hoot
Other ways to say this
German: Das ist mir Wurst Literally: That is sausage to me
Spanish: Importar un pepino Literally: To matter a cucumber- 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: 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
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.
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