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Idioms and Phrases

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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Although he has impressed much less than last season, he has shown his ability to raise his game when needed.

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I tried to inform my friend of the rage-inducing incident and started typing, “even just tapping on the imag”—welp, I didn’t get to finish that word, much less the phrase.

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“The Committee was never informed about the use of AI before the exam took place, so it could not have considered, much less endorsed, its use,” Chan said.

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The events of the past 48 hours may have hardened these trends irreversibly, making the days of even-handedness—much less a return toward alliance with Ukraine—impossible.

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"The games are much shorter and the amount of players on the pitch is much less."

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