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The prejudice, I don't give a dead rat.

No, no, it's, I don't give a rat's ass.

Well, no, this was Mark Twain.

Oh, okay.

When did it turn into rats' ass?

That was train also. That sounds very Twain. Twain. Who gives a rat's ass. That was twain also.

That sounds very twain.

Who gives a rat's ass likely originated in the 20th century.

As a current or more impactful version of older expressions, like I don't give a tinker's cuss.

Oh, man.

I'm going to start using that.

Grandpa used to say that.

Really? No. Did he ever not give a horse's patootie? I've, uh, that's in there. I've heard that one. That's listed in here. One theory suggests a connection to the low value of rat tails. If you ever traded rat tails in the Middle Ages, you know, you never got what, there were no subsidies back then. No, right? Yeah. That was money, right? When a bounty was paid for them. I had some classmates with some questionable haircuts at the 80s. Oh, the old rat tail, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, my cousin got married with a rat tail, but it was he shoved in the back of his suit.

She couldn't see it during the ceremony.

Was it one inch of rat tail for every year of marriage?

Exactly.

Did it last?

No.

Of course not.

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