"give a fig" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives a fig",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving a fig",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave a fig",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given a fig",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> a fig"
      },
      "expansion": "give a fig (third-person singular simple present gives a fig, present participle giving a fig, simple past gave a fig, past participle given a fig)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English negative polarity items",
          "parents": [
            "Negative polarity items",
            "Terms by semantic function"
          ],
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        },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I couldn't give a fig!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 28",
          "text": "The railroads owned by U.S. Steel have never given a fig for prestige so long as their owner's ore was hauled to the mills economically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_a_fig-en-verb-tKemHjXV",
      "links": [
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, negative) To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "care"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give a fig"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives a fig",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving a fig",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave a fig",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given a fig",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> a fig"
      },
      "expansion": "give a fig (third-person singular simple present gives a fig, present participle giving a fig, simple past gave a fig, past participle given a fig)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English negative polarity items",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I couldn't give a fig!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 28",
          "text": "The railroads owned by U.S. Steel have never given a fig for prestige so long as their owner's ore was hauled to the mills economically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, negative) To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "care"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give a fig"
}