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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

The answers aren’t at all simple, and Mungiu has no intention of making them so, much less revealing the whole truth behind the film’s central doubts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Additional evaluations alone would provide much less protection.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Fed pays much less attention to aggregate demand and nominal gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of current dollar spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But it's much less likely to take the heat out of the public debate or draw a line under the case.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

I noticed again something I had often noticed before, that when Karli was at his happiest, he limped much less.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo