до фени

• ДО ФЕНИ <ФОНАРИ> highly coll

[PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with быть (subj: any noun, often это, всё, всё это)]

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⇒ some person or thing does not matter to s.o. or interest s.o. at all:

- X Y-y до феньки{{}}≈ Y doesn't give a damn about <for> X;

- Y doesn't give a crap <a hoot etc> about X;

- Y couldn't give a good goddamn about X.

     ♦ [author's usage] ...Мсти им всем за их нектар, за их аморозию, хоть она нам и до феньки... (Аксёнов 6). Vengeance on them all for their nectar, their ambrosia, even though we don't give a damn for the stuff (6a).

     ♦ "...До сегодняшнего дня мне было, как говорится, до фени, живёт ли где-то подобный Шевчук или нет" (Войнович 4). "...Up until today, I couldn't have, as they say, given a good goddamn whether there was any such Shevchuk alive anywhere" (4a).