much less

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.

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But all these groups are reaching a point where vengeance takes priority over politics or, much less, public relations.

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Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

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The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney.

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Yet their biggest star, a master practitioner of the sport, could face prison time for much less onerous financial crimes.

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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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Martyrdoms do not occur for ethical generalizations, much less for philosophical affirmations.

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It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

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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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