"I couldn't care less." Writers today, old and young, misquote this saying as "I could care less!". The obvious retort is, well, why don't you just go ahead and (care less) and stop bothering us? The whole point is that being unable to care less, you've already arrived at the nadir of your caring.
I don't want to include this in my Homonyms post, for fear that someone would spot it from the corner of their eye, and carelessly use the wrong phrase. (Even articles intended to be helpful can be inadvertently misused.)
Ok, bye bye until I get annoyed at something else!
Kay H. B.
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