tinker's damn

Example Sentences

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Critics will respond: Most voters do not give a tinker’s damn about such matters.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2016

“No one except the press gives a tinker’s damn about protecting the people’s right to know. The general public really doesn’t care.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2016

And, the writer shows no evidence of giving even a tinker's damn about the actual game of basketball, which, is a wonderful game.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016

There’s an angry-looking man behind the end of the bar in Costello’s and he’s saying to a customer, I don’t give a tinker’s damn if you have ten pee haitch dees.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

“We would n’t have been a tinker’s damn the richer if we had,” snarled one of the unwilling conscripts.

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester