Meaning of care a pin | Babel Free

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