give half??

[layla0302]

Lily: Okay, let's have a big hand for Robin the reporter. All right, our next guest is another friend...
Barney: So, Robin, you ever report on train wrecks? 'Cause I just saw one. What up? Tiny five.
Robin: Ha-ha. Laugh now, those kids are monsters. They're going to eat you alive.
Lily: He has a job doing... What do you do?
Barney: Please. Kids, let's rap. You guys don't give half a brown Crayola what I do for a living, do you?
All: No.
Barney: No. I know what you want. Magic.

They are a part of script from "How I met your mother". What does mean "give half?"

 

[layla0302]

THANKS. Could you tell me what "give half" means here please?

 

[5jj]

Gillnetter has explained - 'they don't give half a brown crayola' means 'they don't care at all', 'they place no value'. It's similar to not giving a damn.

 

[BobK]

:up: So, to clarify, since layla0302 is so insistent on this phrase having a meaning, it JUST DOESN'T unless it's supplied by the context, either explicitly (as here) or by implication.

You can qive quarter, but that's something else entirely. ;-)

b

 

[SoothingDave]

This scene takes place in Lily's kindergarten class. The allusion of the "brown crayon" is to the common expression that one does not give a (crap) about something. You wouldn't say that around children, so Barney improvises.