much less

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.”

Example Sentences

One that is less about left or right and more about exactly who and what those boys stumble upon inside those ethereal spaces that most parents can’t even find, much less understand.

From Los Angeles Times

For many of you, this might be the one movie on this list that you haven’t seen, much less know.

From Los Angeles Times

The case for keeping ICBMs at all, much less for building a new model, is rather tenuous.

From Slate

But the program’s managers have never even tried to hit two warheads with two interceptors, much less a dozen with a dozen, or even at one warhead that zigzags on its way to the target, as Russia’s new generation of hypersonic missiles is said to do.

From Slate

I don’t know if this country, much less Texas, is ready for what he’s selling.

From Salon