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care a tinker's damn

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tinker's damn

 
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–noun
1. the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
—Idiom
2. care or give a tinker's damn, to have or feel little or no concern; be unaffected or unmoved: I don't care a tinker's damn for their opinions.
Also, tinker's dam.

Origin:
1830–40; from tinkers' alleged habit of cursing frequently (hence weakening the force of a curse)
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