couldn't Идиома

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

couldn't believe my ears

(See can't believe my ears)

offer I couldn't refuse

(See an offer I couldn't refuse)

couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

totally incompetent

couldn't stop a pig in an alleyway

having bow legs. Occasionally heard as couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel, - a Midlands/Northern variation whereby ginnel is dialect for alleyway

Wild horses couldn't drag

Idiom(s): Wild horses couldn't drag sb.

Theme: FORCE

nothing could force someone (to go somewhere). (Informal.)
• I refuse to go to that meeting! Wild horses couldn't drag me.
• Wild horses couldn't drag her to that game.

couldn't care less

Idiom(s): could(n't) care less

Theme: CARING - LACKING

unable to care at all. (Informal. Could care less is considered slang.)
• John couldn't care less whether he goes to the party or not.
• So she won first place. I couldn't care less.
• I could care less if I live or die.

Couldn't give two hoots

If you couldn't give two hoots about something, you don't care at all about it.

couldn't care less|care|care less

v. phr., informal To be indifferent; not care at all. The students couldn't care less about the band; they talk all through the concert. Also heard increasingly as "could care less" (nonstandard in this form.)

couldn't

couldn't
In addition to the idioms beginning with couldn't, also see not hurt a fly. Also see under can't.
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- couldn't care less

wild horses couldn't drag me

wild horses couldn't drag me
Nothing could induce or persuade me, as in Wild horses couldn't drag me to that nightclub. This idiom, always in negative form, is believed to have replaced wild horses couldn't draw it from me, referring to the medieval torture of using horses to stretch a prisoner and thereby force a confession. [First half of 1800s]

More Idioms/Phrases

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