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Hendrickson, Robert. "give a damn." Writer's Reference Center. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 11 July 2025. <http://fofweb.infobase.com/wrc/Detail.aspx?iPin=EWPO04622>.
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give a damn

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The above was originally "I don't give a dam," the expression probably brought back to England from India by military men in the mid 18th century. A dam was an Indian coin of little value. I don't give a damn is first recorded in America in the 1890s. Its most famous use was in Gone with the Wind (1939), when Rhett Butler tells Scarlett O'Hara: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

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