much less

Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

There’s a few good reasons for that — chief among them being that it’s really difficult to make a good robot, much less a humanoid one that can operate on its own.

From MarketWatch

There’s a few good reasons for that — chief among them being that it’s really difficult to make a good robot, much less a humanoid one that can operate on its own.

From MarketWatch

It’s also possible that precipitation could return to Southern California around New Year’s Day, but at the moment the storm appears it would “be a much less intense event” than the Christmas Eve atmospheric river storm, the San Diego office said.

From Los Angeles Times

We can’t point to the specific physical processes that generate subjective experience in our own brains, much less rule out that different substrates might achieve it through different mechanisms.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We doubt this reflects a rebound in global economic activity, as prices of basic metals, which are more closely linked to industrial production, have increased by much less,” Ed Ed Yardeni said in a note published Tuesday by his Yardeni Research group.

From Barron's