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to say the least



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Idioms and Phrases

Not to exaggerate, as in When the ring turned up in the lost and found, she was delighted, to say the least . This idiom was first recorded in 1809.
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But Rowling’s series was already imperfect long before she went public with her anti-trans bigotry: her writing of mixed-race and non-white characters is clunky to say the least; the goblin characters are obvious and offensive Jewish stereotypes; and there’s an Asian character named Cho Chang — and that’s just scratching the surface.

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Their Premier League form, which has be extremely poor, will be taken into account as will Postecoglou's connection with the supporters, which has been mixed to say the least.

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It hasn't been an easy season for Arteta to say the least.

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“The government’s ‘evidence’ was thin, to say the least,” Thacker said.

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"We had some difficult scenes to do, and inch by inch, slowly slowly, bit by bit we built up this very complex relationship, to say the least."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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