Don't give a jack

Posted by ESC on June 09, 2007

In Reply to: Don't give a jack posted by Smokey Stover on June 09, 2007

: : Hi I am new to this site and I'm not really comp lit!
: : Does any one know the meaning of the saying "I don't give a jack"?

: Is it possible that the phrase was "I don't give jack"? That would mean, I don't care anything, I don't care at all. Perhaps the phrase was written by someone not entirely at home with it. Normally, "jack" in a phrase like this is not a commodity measured in units, like "a jack." I don't myself use or hear used the word in this meaning, but I would much more expect to see, "I don't care jack."
: SS
: SS

The whole phrase is: I don't give jack sh*t. But I don't know why "jack."

• Don't give a jack ESC 09/June/07