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Idioms and Phrases
And certainly not, as in He rarely talks about his outside activities, much less his family . The earliest record of this idiom is in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1671): “The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory.”Example Sentences
Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
But all these groups are reaching a point where vengeance takes priority over politics or, much less, public relations.
Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.
The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney.
Yet their biggest star, a master practitioner of the sport, could face prison time for much less onerous financial crimes.
He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
You know MacRae, Lyn; it's mighty poor business for any man to tread on his toes, much less go walking rough-shod all over him.
Martyrdoms do not occur for ethical generalizations, much less for philosophical affirmations.
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
I still think we might have done as well at much less cost by creeping up these 200 or 300 yards by night.
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