Is THIS the source of the expression? Seriously?

You can cover up a lot of private business with a fig leaf, Father Steve.

But you don't hear "I don't give a fig!" any more ... and that's regretable.

All you ever hear is "I don't give a ....!"

It leaves less to the imagination.

That brings me back to my discussion with The Fallible Fiend (who is nobody's fiend, by the way).

Imagination is all too rare a commodity.

Seriously.