matter to

matter to (one)

To be of importance, significance, or worth to one. If success really matters to you so much that you would sacrifice your friends to get it, then I don't want to be your friend to begin with. A: "Do you want to keep or get rid of these books." B: "IT doesn't matter to me—do whatever's easier." It doesn't matter to the boss what's going on in your home life. All she cares about is whether you get your work done on time or not.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

matter to someone

to be important to someone. Does money really matter to you? Yes, it matters to me a lot.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • matter to (one)
  • be of no account
  • of little/no account
  • of no account
  • mean to (one)
  • don't sleep on (someone or something)
  • first magnitude/order/water, of the
  • magnitude
  • of the first magnitude
  • of the highest order
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In the study the ratio of dark matter to normal matter, in the form of stars and gas, is 2.5 to 1, which is what astronomers expected.
In fact, many students may behave in socially unacceptable or inappropriate manners (better known as "at-risk" behaviors) in order to gain attention from adults and peers, thus attempting to matter to others (Dixon Rayle, 2006; Elliott, Kao, & Grant, 2004).
We matter to others if they depend on us for their needs or wants just as children depend on their parents for their basic needs.
57 on obtaining and evaluating sufficient competent evidential matter to support significant accounting estimates.
The smaller an object the further its ratio of ordinary matter to dark matter is from the cosmic mix.
The change in sound marks the time when the universe is cool enough for photons and atomic matter to separate.
Nicastro adds that mapping ordinary matter will reveal the location of dark matter This invisible material is believed to be the stuff that coalesced first in the universe, which triggered ordinary matter to clump into galaxies.
Unlike visible matter, it can't be pushed by winds." We hypothesize the existence of dark matter to explain observations that could be attributed to gravitational forces, but we don't know what dark matter might be.
Whenever gravity caused matter to compress, the pressure exerted by the trapped photons offered resistance.
Since there doesn't seem to be enough matter to do the job, cosmologists have proposed that some sort of mystery energy, dubbed dark energy, makes up the density deficit.
It's common during phase transitions, like water's familiar ones, for bubbles of unchanged matter to linger and then suddenly and violently burst in a belated transformation into the new phase.
In this scenario, because matter and antimatter annihilate each other, nearly all antimatter would eventually vanish, leaving just enough matter to make up essentially everything in the universe today.
He cautions that as astronomers probe farther and farther out from a galaxy's visible core, it may become difficult to ascribe dark matter to a particular galaxy.
A variety of observations, however, including measurements taken over the past year, has revealed that the universe comes up short: It doesn't have nearly enough matter to be flat.
A low-weight universe does not have sufficient density of matter to be flat.