care a hoot

idiom

informal

: to care at all about someone or something

—used in negative statements

I don't care a hoot about what they say.

I don't care two hoots about his problems.

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Despite strong evidence that the average voter in the presidential election doesn’t care a hoot about international trade policy, Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance have been promising to step up Trump’s tariff war with China. —