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Definition of Give a hang
1. Verb. Show no concern or interest; always used in the negative. "She doesn't give a damn about her job"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give A Hang
Literary usage of Give a hang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living, Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk (1915)
"I don't give a hang!" The truth is many people fail because of over- anxiety lest
they fail. Some invalids die from an exaggerated desire not to die. ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"Mab," Kenyon interrupted again, " I don't give a hang about this Miss Brogden
you were everlastingly writing me about, but who is this Miss Preciousness ? ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"Mab," Kenyon interrupted again, " I don't give a hang about this Miss Brogden
you were everlastingly writing me about, but who is this Miss Preciousness ? ..."
4. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"If we didn't give a hang whether or not we succeeded, all of the little arteries
that vein the peopled universe would atrophy; we would move on sluggishly, ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
""That 's—the— whole trouble with you, Zillah Forsyth," she stammered — "you never
give a hang whether anything 's nice or not ; all you care is whether it ..."
6. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"Interested in the greater truth of Post-Impressionism? Excuse me, my dear sir,
but that's pure rot. The public doesn't give a hang for technique. ..."
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