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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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What does decaying damn mean?

"F*** you, Josh. You'll get a bill for the damage you caused."

"Sam, do you know how concerned I am about your bill? I don't give a decaying damn, I don't--"

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'I don't give a decaying ****' is just an imaginative ad hoc coined emphatic variation of 'I don't give a ****', which means 'I don't care at all'.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'I don't give a decaying ****' is just an imaginative ad hoc coined emphatic variation of 'I don't give a ****', which means 'I don't care at all'.
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'I don't give a decaying ****' is just an imaginative ad hoc coined emphatic variation of 'I don't give a ****', which means 'I don't care at all'.
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I understand what "I don't give a ****" mean, but why they use decaying? What does decaying mean in this case?

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Without more context, we have no idea why "decaying" is used here. It's certainly not any kind of familiar idiom.
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I don't think tha 'decaying has anything to do with context. it is just a negative-sounding word that repeats the initial sound. If he were really upset, he woould say 'I don't give a doubled-down dreadfully decaying ****!!'
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