Meaning of care a button | Babel Free

Definitions

To care (at all).

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“[…] the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his frendes or kinsfolkes […]”

“If you are treated ill and put on, ’Tis natural to make a Fuss; To see it and not care a Button, Is just as natural for us.”

“Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip. ¶ Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.”

“You’re the only chap I care a button for […]”

“Twenty years since we sat on top Of the world, amusing ourselves and sneering At other manners and customs, jeering At other nations, living in clover— Not any more. That’s done and over. No one nowadays cares a button For the upper classes—they’re dead as mutton.”

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