variants
or doodly-squat
as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology
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Continue reading … 'STEELE' THE SHOW – MSNBC host demands Democrats start giving a ‘damn’ about Trump, Musk in fiery rant.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
17 Feb. 2025 -
Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
25 Sep. 2024
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The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.—
The Editors,
National Review,
30 Sep. 2024
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And with that, the Woodstone property gained yet another ghost, one who may have just launched the show into its season endgame.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
6 Mar. 2025
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So the unseen figure of the ghost becomes an expression of the filmmaker’s power over the frame, evoking the sadistic-voyeuristic nature of cinema in general and genre cinema in particular.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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The movie is a jaw-dropping hoot, with Moore as an aging celebrity who takes a drug treatment that unlocks her younger self (Margaret Qualley).—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Parker Posey plays Tim’s wife, Victoria, a brassy belle who thinks everything her children do is a hoot.—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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The teams combined to take 168 3-pointers, and didn’t play a lick of defense.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Photo by Jeffery Edwards/Shutterstock In addition to artists, local restauranteurs are taking some of the hardest licks, given most are small-business owners and entrepreneurs who survive on the thinnest of margins and don’t have much in terms of reserves.—
Joe Diaz,
AFAR Media,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Doodley-squat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doodley-squat. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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