carry weight
To be influential; have significance and/or clout; impress.
A letter of recommendation from a full professor carries more weight than a letter from an assistant professor.
carrying charge
An extra cost added to the price of something bought on weekly or monthly payments.
The price of the bicycle was $50. Jim bought it for $5.00 a month for ten months plus a carrying charge of $1 a month.
cart off
cart away
To take away, often with force or with rough handling or behavior.
The police carted the rioters off to jail.
When Bobby wouldn't eat his supper, his mother carted him away to bed.
carved in granite
chiseled in granite
inscribed in granite
written in stone
Holy; unchangeable; noble and of ancient origin.
You should wear shoes when you come to class, although this is not carved in granite.
The Constitution of the United States is so hard to change that one thinks of it as written in stone.
cash-and-carry
Selling things for cash money only and letting the customer carry them home, not having the store deliver them; also sold in this way.
Продажа товаров за наличный расчёт без доставки на дом.
This is a cash-and-carry store only.
You can save money at a cash-and-carry sale.
We were able to get a good price on a sofa in a cash-and-carry deal at the furniture store.
Нам удалось сговориться о приемлемой цене на диван в сделке за наличный расчет и без доставки в мебельном магазине.
With no credit, no time payments, and no deliveries.
Some stores sell cash-and-carry only.
It is cheaper to buy cash-and-carry.
couldn't care less
To be indifferent; not care at all. Also heard increasingly as could care less (nonstandard in this form.)
The students couldn't care less about the band; they talk all through the concert.
devil-may-care attitude
An attitude of no concern for financial or other loss.
"Easy come, easy go," John said in a devil-may-care attitude when he lost all of his money during a poker game.
devil-may-care
Not caring what happens; unworried.
Johnny has a devil-may-care feeling about his school work.
Alfred was a devil-may-care youth but became more serious as he grew older.