give a crap

idiom

informal + impolite

: to care at all about someone or something

Who gives a crap?

—usually used in negative statements

She doesn't give a crap about us.

Examples of give a crap in a Sentence

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Policymakers are doing little to remedy the burden of housing costs, even for the most vulnerable, or to protect renters from landlords who—excuse my language—don’t give a crap about the people living under their roofs. —

Longreads, 12 July 2024 This is just a man that doesn’t give a crap what people say on social. —

Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2024 If the Israelis left Israel tomorrow, that whole area would become a perpetual war zone between Jordan, Syria and Egypt, and nobody would give a crap anymore about the Palestinians. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024 Carney allow readers to give a crap about the expansion of New York in the 1960s. —

Seija Rankin, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021 That comes from give a crap, toughness. —

oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2022 So this idea that Zeus wins but that place doesn't give a crap about Zeus or Tak Mashido [the engineer behind League champion Zeus]. —

Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021 Did Google just not give a crap until now? —

Curtis Silver, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021