хоть бы хны

• ХОТЬ БЫ ХНЫ highly coll

[Invar; predic]

=====

1. хоть бы хны (кому) disapprov [impers or with subj: human]

⇒ one or s.o. is completely indifferent to, unconcerned about etc sth.:

- X-y <X> хоть бы хны{{}}≈ X couldn't (could) care less;

- X doesn't care (at all <in the least etc>);

- X doesn't give a damn <a hoot, a darn etc>;

- it doesn't mean a thing to X.

     ♦ "[Ты] мог бы встретить, - капризно и запальчиво выкрикивала она сквозь слёзы. - Думала, не дойду, думала, упаду, а... ему хоть бы хны" (Распутин 2). "You could have met me," she cried through her tears crankily. "I thought I wouldn't make it, I thought I would fall, and...you don't care!" (2a).

2. хоть бы хны кому [impers]

⇒ sth. does not affect or cause any reaction in s.o.:

- X-у хоть бы хны{{}}≈ it doesn't bother <ruffle> X a bit <at all>;

- it has little <no> effect on X;

- X doesn't turn a hair;

- [in refer, to physical sensations, usu. pain] X doesn't even feel it.

     ♦ Один человек, допустим, такой это весёлый-весёлый, что с ним хоть что ни случись - ему хоть бы хны, плюнет и дальше жить пойдёт (Попов 1). One person, let's say, is so cheerful and jolly that no matter what happens to him, it doesn't bother him a bit; he just shrugs it off and goes on living (1a).

     ♦ "Ты её [тётушку Хрисулу] трахнул фасолевой подпоркой, а ей хоть бы хны?!" - сказал Чунка, не глядя вниз (Искандер 5). "You bonked her [Auntie Chrysoula] with a beanpole, and she didn't even feel it?" Chunka said without looking down (5a).