Machts Nichts

Meanings:

I’m easy

“‘Naw, macht nichts, let’s walk.’ Jack pronounces it ‘mox nix,’ meaning ‘makes no difference’ or, in air force parlance, ‘I’m easy.’” —Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies (2003)

Matters not

Never mind

Whatever

Origins: This is a German colloquial expression.

Variations and Incantations:

Mox Nix

Mocks Nicks

In Literature:

“She took a drag and waved both the smoke and the image away, dismissing them with the words she used to take the curse off all vexations, ‘Machts nichts.’ I repeated the magical words under my breath. Mox nix.” —Sarah Bird, The Yokota Officers Club (2001)