give a rat's ass

English

Verb

give a rat's ass (third-person singular simple present gives a rat's ass, present participle giving a rat's ass, simple past gave a rat's ass, past participle given a rat's ass)

1. US standard spelling of give a rat's arse.
   • 2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in Time:

     I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.

   • 2008 March 24, Jim Moore, “Save Our Sonics group is angry, articulate”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 11 May 2011:

     Anderson also said he doesn't think "the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle," and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett.

   • 2008 August 12, Gregg Keizer, “New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher”, in PC World, Australia, retrieved 11 May 2011:

     "[W]e could completely secure the DNS or at least the parts of DNS whose operators gave a rat's ass about security," Vixie concluded.