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tinker's cuss; tinker's damn; tinker's toss
noun
something of no value UK, 1824- I couldn’t care a tinker’s cuss what happens to it – to the traders, the Chinese or the poxy Triads. — James Clavell, Tai-Pan, p. 654, 1966
- I don’t give a tinker’s damn what they do on Mount Olympus[.] — David Sedaris, Naked, p. 69, 1997
- [W]hy would my three playing partners give a tinker’s cuss in the middle of playing a round[?] — Troon McAllister, The Green, p. 15, 1999
- Today the wagtail finally forgot / that I once called it sigl-di-gwt. / It didn’t give a tinker’s toss, / kept right on rooting in river moss[.] — The Guardian, 5 June 2004: “What’s in a name?”
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