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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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 -
But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 July 2024
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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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The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.—
Mattie Kahn,
Vogue,
23 July 2024
Noun
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Weathered homes built in Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman Bungalow, and Queen Anne styles line Hemphill like ghosts from a thriving era.—
Richard J. Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Feb. 2025
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Anyone who saw Chris McKim’s kinetic 2020 documentary collage about the late David Wojnarowicz more than likely was haunted also by the other ghost very much present in that film, Peter Hujar.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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The supporting cast around them is more successful in actually eliciting laughs: Tatro is the film’s exotic-dancing voice of reason, Leanne Morgan plays Margot’s scene-stealing, raunchy older sister, and Celia Weston is a hoot as their tough-love mom.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025
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Gervais is a hoot, going broad with his slippery antagonist’s freewheeling nonsense.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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Most organ players in those days would just play through everything, but Garth would lay back, hit licks, hit horn shots.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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And Rich has never given a rat’s ass about playing all of the great licks.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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