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“I don’t give a rap”

Aug 5th, 2015 by

The expression “I don’t give a rap” originated in Dublin in the 18th Century when the counterfeit sixpence were dubbed “raps” or “bad” in reference to the famous “Drapier’s Letters” in which Swift writes “of many counterfeits  passed under the name of “raps”.

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