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cela m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre

/sə.la m‿ɑ̃ tuʃ yn sɑ̃ fɛʁ bu.ʒe l‿otʁ/

phrase/sə.la m‿ɑ̃ tuʃ yn sɑ̃ fɛʁ bu.ʒe l‿otʁ/

I don't give a fuck; it's like water off a duck's back to me

Literally "it touches one [of my testicles] without moving the other". Of pied noir origin. Popularised by Jacques Chirac, who used it in November 1987 to express his indifference to criticism from François Mitterrand.

cela m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre — French Dictionary | Passage