drawing card
The most important figure in a multi-person event; the top entertainer during a show; the best professor or researcher at a university, etc.
During the concert series Barbra Streisand was the biggest drawing card.
The biggest drawing card at many a university is the resident Nobel Laureate.
flash card
A card with numbers or words on it that is used in teaching, a class.
The teacher used flash cards to drill the class in addition.
for all one cares
In the opinion of one who is not involved or who does not care what happens.
For all Jane cares, poor Tom might as well drop dead.
fraidy-cat
fraid-cat
scaredy-cat
scared cat
scared-cat
A shy person; someone who is easily frightened. Usually used by or to children.
Tom was a fraidy-cat and wouldn't go in the water.
getaway car
A vehicle parked near the scene of a crime in which the criminals escape.
The police intercepted the getaway car at a major crossroads.
give a hang
care a hang
To have any interest or liking; care. Used also with other words in the place of hang, such as damn, rap, straw; usually used in the negative.
You can quit helping me if you want to. I don't give a hang.
Some people don't care a rap about sports.
Bruce never goes to the dances; he does not care a straw about dancing.
hardly any
scarcely any
Almost no or almost none; very few.
Hardly any of the students did well on the test, so the teacher explained the lesson again.
Charles and his friends each had three cookies, and when they went out, hardly any cookies were left.
hardly ever
scarcely ever
Very rarely; almost never; seldom.
It hardly ever snows in Florida.
Johnny hardly ever reads a book.