I don't trust this bloke McMahon a tinker's damn.

All right, I don't give a tinker's damn what anybody says if you stand by me!

What I feel is this: If she'd cared a tinker's damn for me she'd never have gone.

Except the British and the French, there's no nation in Europe worth a tinker's damn when you come to the real scratch.

"I don't give a tinker's damn who you are," replied North sturdily.

"I don't care a tinker's damn what you've done," he said forcibly.

"An old soldier like me," said Napoleon, "does not care a tinker's damn for the death of a million men."