let alone

1. Not to mention, as in We have no room for another house guest, let alone an entire family . [c. 1800]

2. See leave someone alone .

Example Sentences

Accordingly, the policy which I advocate is not the let-alone policy.

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They are regarded as advocates of individualism and the laissez-faire or, as I should prefer to call it, the let-alone principle.

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Socialism is the juste milieu between Let-alone-ism on the one hand and Anarchism on the other.

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Sipsu's let-alone policy caused his wife to complain that she only of the women was without even a needle.

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We have the let-alone policy, in puris naturalibus, and everything is truly let alone, but the property of the master.

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