TO CASE NOT A LOUSE, verb. phr. (old).—To be utterly indifferent.

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, iv. 38.

        For any Ale-house,
We care not a LOUSE.

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  NOT WORTH A LOUSE, adj. phr. (common).—Utterly worthless.

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  1617.  GREENE, Metamorphosis [GROSART (1881–6), ix. 97]. Lest thy foundation faile, and thy Logike prooue NOT WORTH A LOWSE.

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  1786.  BURNS, Address to the Deil.

        Is instant made no worth a louse,
        Just at the bit.

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