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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much less

State or public law school are often much less expensive that private ones.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Oracle founder Larry Ellison never finished college, much less attended USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

It has been the fear that building the capacity to meet that growth would be so costly that even the companies that won the AI race would end up much less profitable than envisioned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

This suggests that collisions may have altered their surfaces much less than expected.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

When Tycho became more knowledgeable about astronomy, though, he realized that the accuracy with which men seemed to ‘know the positions of the stars’ was much less impressive than he had thought at first.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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