Definition of not care/give a fig
- He doesn't care a fig about what others think.
- I don't give a fig whether he comes or goes.
: suffering of mind : grief
: a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility
: a cause for such anxiety
: to feel trouble or anxiety
: to feel interest or concern
: to give care
: to make a present of
: to grant or bestow by formal action
: to accord or yield to another
: capacity or tendency to yield to force or strain : flexibility
: the ability of a material to bend or stretch
: an oblong or pear-shaped syconium fruit of a tree (genus Ficus) of the mulberry family
: a tree bearing figs
: a worthless trifle : the least bit
: dress, array
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