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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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much less

Were that to happen, the club's future would be much less clear and would require them to apply to the Football Association for re-entry.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

These days I’m much less anti-mainstream, especially when it’s something that brings us closer to our true human nature, which is reflected to some degree in the seasonal behaviors of other species.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Maybe what that means is that human creativity is changing, and that it’s much less dependent on idea generation, and much more dependent on idea selection and elaboration as the unique human skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

On the Moon, it is only about 1.62 meters per second squared because the Moon has much less mass and therefore produces weaker gravitational acceleration.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Temple knew very little about science, much less than Wotton, and lacked any inclination to make good this deficiency.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton