Sitting in a quiet pub with my dad last year he was telling me a story about someone or other and suddenly blurted out "......and I really couldn't give a toss" . The whole pub turned round and looked and I went terribly red. My dad looked at me and said "what?" I don't think he "got" what others were thinking or the meaning of the phrase he had used. 
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