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Meaning of care a pin | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To care for something, to have interest or concern for something or someone.

dated, informal

Examples

“It's such a ridiculous position for a man to have to assume—all that sighing and love-song making about a woman you don't really care a pin for.”
“"Bother them all! I don't care a pin about them."”
“Management has been lazy, too—management has found it easier to hire an additional five hundred men than to so improve its methods that one hundred men of the old force could be released to other work. The public was paying, and business was booming, and management didn't care a pin.”
“How did people manage in London? No one to ask, no signposts, no one who cared a pin whether you got to St Pancras or not.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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