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In Polish, it’s “mam to w dupie”, or “I have it up my ass”, which actually sounds painful/rather a lot of effort about something you’re indifferent to.
It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word crack for “railtrack embedded in the pavement” as used by trams (streetcars). To let the crack oxidize is to not do proper upkeep on that section of the track.
Though no one uses crack to refer to railway track anymore. So the translation is definitely the connotation that modern day dutch speakers would hear.
>I will talk about it with my horse (Italian)
>I don’t give a cabbage (Italy)
EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.
Why doe these not have the original language version behind the English one? Or am I missing that (dunno what Nitter is). Like the Dutch one is: 'Het zal me aan mijn reet roesten'.
Isn't this mostly well-timed content marketing? > As we’re entering last-minute Christmas shopping time, it’d be remiss of me not to mention I have a book of lists like these
You can assume that most trending content on the web is intentionally well timed and trying to peddle something to you. Doesn't matter though; still fun.
I found much of this material not interesting or fun.
Im just replying to you whilst walking my dog, hoping to trigger a raucous debate for the sake of it.
As an italian from (near) Rome, I feel offended we're not getting the recognition we deserve for this! The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :) There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall: When God finished making the world, God was looking…
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It's a more vulgar version of " https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_brosser_le_nom... ". However, I found it quite surprising to add such a rare thing but not the most usual things like "I've got nothing to wax" and its vulgar form.
That happens when you google idioms in other languages ... you have no clue about the actual usage. And they are usually not one-to-one. German "das ist mir Wurst" is also a lot weaker than "zero fucks given", at least use something stronger like "das interessiert keinen Arsch" (no asshole cares). Also "zero fucks given" in the sense of "irresponsible, he just does it and doesn't care who gets hurt" doesn't really ha…
> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no clue what he refers to.
Seems to be a mix betwen of "Je m'en bats les couilles" and "Le train de tes injures roule sur les rails de mon indifférence", never heard the author version. I stand wrong on the etymology, see below. French-speaking here. It exists as an entry in the https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_badigeonner_le... but I don't think I ever heard someone uses it. The non vulgar original version seems to be "s'en bross…
My own personal favorite would be (it's very inelegantly translated) it touches one [of my testicles] without making the other move (maybe invented by former president Chirac, at least made popular by him). It's well known and understood and has the advantage to be vulgar enough without actually making an explicit reference to testicles.