"care a button" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1596, Marin Barleti, translated by Zachary Jones, The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie, London: William Ponsonby, Book 5, p. 180",
          "text": "[…] the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his frendes or kinsfolkes […]",
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          "ref": "1763, John Hall-Stevenson, A Pastoral Cordial, London: J. Hinxman, page 19",
          "text": "If you are treated ill and put on,\n’Tis natural to make a Fuss;\nTo see it and not care a Button,\nIs just as natural for us.",
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Walter de la Mare, “Seaton’s Aunt”, in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London: Faber & Faber, published 1942, page 86",
          "text": "You’re the only chap I care a button for […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs, New York: Coward-McCann, page 60",
          "text": "Twenty years since we sat on top\nOf the world, amusing ourselves and sneering\nAt other manners and customs, jeering\nAt other nations, living in clover—\nNot any more. That’s done and over.\nNo one nowadays cares a button\nFor the upper classes—they’re dead as mutton.",
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        "To care (at all)."
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        "(idiomatic, dated, chiefly in the negative) To care (at all)."
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        "in the negative"
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          "text": "[…] the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his frendes or kinsfolkes […]",
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          "ref": "1922, Walter de la Mare, “Seaton’s Aunt”, in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London: Faber & Faber, published 1942, page 86",
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        "(idiomatic, dated, chiefly in the negative) To care (at all)."
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