devil-may-care

== English == === Etymology === From attributive use of a shortened idiom of the original oath or expression: The devil may care, but I do not. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === devil-may-care (comparative more devil-may-care, superlative most devil-may-care) Carefree, reckless, irresponsible. Synonyms: happy-go-lucky, heedless, imprudent, rash; see also Thesaurus:carefree, Thesaurus:reckless 1837, "Venator", The Warwickshire Hunt from 1795 to 1836, Prefatory Remarks: This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart. ==== Translations ====