could care less

短语

发音

UK /kəd kɛə ˈlɛs/
US /kəd kɛ(ə)ɹ ˈlɛs/
US /-ke(ə)ɹ-/

词形变化

could have cared less 过去式 could have cared less perfect could have cared less 过去式

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.

    美国

词源

An alteration of couldn’t care less (which is first attested slightly earlier), either: * by deliberate irony, or * by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.

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