give a monkey's | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,UK,idiomatic,in negative constructions)Tocare; to have aninterestorconcern.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:care1998, Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse,Billy Liar:He knows what he can do with his calendars. I don'tgive a monkey's. I'm leaving. I've got another job.2002, a British Manufacturing Director, quotee, edited by Robert Westwood and Stephen Linstead,The Language of Organization, page71:I couldn'tgive a monkey's. What I am interested in is the things that drive the big numbers.2004, Randall Stevenson,The Oxford English Literary History, 1960–2000:Though a huge majority of the population may have continued not togive a monkey'sfor Derrida, Lacan, or Foucault themselves[…]2005, Justine Roberts, Carrie Longton,Mums on Pregnancy: Trade Secrets from the Real Experts:A friend living in France reports that the French don'tgive a monkey'sabout unpasteurized dairy products (cheese, etc.) but that they are completely paranoid about le toxoplasmosis.

Examples:

EN: I don't give a monkey's arsehole about mods and rockers.
ES: Pues a mí me importa una mierda eso de los mods y los rockers.
EN: I don't eat shit for anyone, and I don't give a monkey's.
ES: No como mierda de nadie, y no doy oportunidad.
EN: I don't give a monkey's what you can hear, all right?
ES: Me importa un carajo lo que escuchen, ¿entiende?
EN: You don't give a monkey's about us!
ES: ¡Si no te importamos un carajo!
ES: ¡Si no te importamos un carajo!
EN: I couldn't give a monkey's fart.
ES: Me importa menos que peo de mono.
EN: Did I give a monkey's? Did I fuck.
ES: ¿Me dan un mono?
EN: I don't give a monkey's fart about her.
ES: Paso totalmente de esa chica.
EN: - I don't give a monkey's.
ES: - Me la trae floja.
EN: At the moment, I don't give a monkey's butt what happened.
ES: Por el momento no me importa lo que pasó.
EN: I don't give a monkey's.
ES: Me importa un bledo.
EN: That he didn't give a monkey's if it couldn't be proved, but every even number is the sum of two primes.
ES: Que no le importaba si no podía demostrarse, pero que todo número par es la suma de dos números primos.
EN: I don't give a monkey's arse.
ES: Hablo yo. Como si se la pica un mono.
EN: Animal, vegetable, mineral, I couldn't give a monkey's twat what you're into, but not in our fucking bed!
ES: Animal, vegetal, mineral, Incluso con un mono. Lo que te interese, pero no en nuestro dormitorio.
EN: To give a monkey's a cigarette in new jersey?
ES: Por eso los monos viven más que nosotros.
EN: People here don't give a monkey's shit about the nation bleeding state, or international law.
ES: A la gente le importa un demonio el estado sangrante de la nación, o las leyes internacionales.

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